SFF, day 6: Austria, India, and Antarctica!

Thursday - another day with no school to rush my viewing pleasure!
My first block was a short and a narrative feature. Let's go!
"The Rose Bowl" was most assuredly not about football. Not even close! Baby names. Two women, married to brothers, want the same name for their baby. First to deliver wins! Very funny!
The feature, set in Austria and having a magnificent backdrop, was about long-term friendship, on hiatus by distance and time until a birthday of import approaches. "Vor. Seit. Schluss! (Forward. Side. Close!)" are dance instructions for the rhumba. How cool is that! How do I know? I recently learned the dance!
Here, the outgoing friend encourages the introverted birthday boy to throw a party... and to finally learn to dance. Quite the lovely tale of second chances and old dogs learning new tricks!

Time for a brief warm-up outside as I bopped from the Lucas to the Trustees. Only one film in this noon-ish block of time, but one I had looked forward to. Would it be Bollywood? All I knew for sure was it was Indian.
As it turned out, "Ek Hazarachi Note (1,000 Rupee Note)" was not Bollywood, but was still a wonderful movie. The tale centered on Budhi, an old woman, sharing a duplex with Sudama and his young family. They live in a poor village, but the merchants allow her to buy as she needs, not in quantity. That changed when a politician came to town, passing out free food and free money. Sudama informed the politician that Budhi's son was one of the farmers' suicides the year before. Feeling guilt, the politician gives her a handful of ₹1,000 bills, rather than the single ₹100 note the others receive.
He never even thought about the repercussions of handing her such large notes in such a small, poor town. How disconnected he was from the people!
The small merchants stop selling her the few leaves of tea or the cup of milk they previously allowed her to buy. "In bulk!", they demanded. Budhi asks Sudama to travel with her to the next town, to buy larger goods like new eyeglasses and new clothes. And that's where the trouble really began for this innocent pair!
Excellent film! Shrihari Sathe, the director/producer, was there to introduce the work, as well as for the post-film Q&A. How very generous with his time!

I now had plenty of time to look elsewhere for a late lunch... and more quarters for the meters. Toward my home turf I drove, looking for my middle brother along the way. Nope, no luck in that venture. Off to Sisters of the New South to dine solo, then. Such addictive fried chicken there! Yum!!!
With more quarters in hand, I bounced back downtown, found a meter, fed it, and hurried to the Trustees, slightly late. Drats! Fortunately, I had missed only the first few minutes of "Zawadi (Treat)". Set in Kenya, a boy helps support his family by gathering and selling bottles, until some hoodlums step in. Then he must make a decision: take the smaller amount of money to his mom, or buy a birthday gift for his girlfriend? Such an uplifting tale!
Then we were all magically transported from the warmth of that locale to the crazy cold of Antarctica! Brrr!
"The Penguin Counters" followed Ron Naveen, former lawyer, current activist for change. The crew followed him for his 28th trip to the southernmost continent, and his 20th trip with a team to - literally - count populations of several varieties of penguins. Incredible science venture! Want to visit? Check here for info. Me? No, thanks, I was cold just watching the film!
No Q&A for this one, so I was done with the SFF for the day.
Off to the Story Slam!