SF/Arts Curator Insight

Among the delightful offerings are films with sinister origin stories. “Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby,” a filmed staged dance performance, takes its cue from Steven Knight’s hit British gangster series and the trajectory of its violent lead character, memorably played by the charismatic, much lauded Irish actor, Cillian Murphy. The doc, “Pol Pot Dancing” concerns a royal Cambodian dancer who raises her husband’s younger brother only to discover to her horror, years later, while enslaved by the Khymer Rouge, that the boy became the murderous dictator, Pol Pot.