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WEDNESDAY (Feb. 19): Film Arts Foundation's monthly series of new documentaries, "True Stories," premieres Mark Moskowitz's Stone Reader (2002), about a reader's search for the one-book author of a 1972 volume he really, really loves. $7 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY (Feb. 20): The San Francisco Cinematheque offers "Six Adventures in Video With Tommy Becker," "sentimental vignettes" made up of spoken word, performance, music, and costume design. Live performance with artist in person. $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY (Feb. 21): The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (tonight and tomorrow; all videos $6) screens the latest from Alberto Vendemmiati and Fabrizio Lazzaretti, directors of Jung: In the Land of the Mujaheddin, whose Afghanistan Year 1380 (2002) picks up with the filmmakers returning to Afghanistan one week after Sept. 11 to follow the efforts of a group of doctors trying to build an emergency medical hospital 7:30 p.m. The story of the 1994 Rwandan massacres is told from the perspective of a U.N. general who tried to help in Steven Silver's The Last Just Man (2002) 8:30 p.m.
SATURDAY: Human Rights Watch -- Reza Khatibi's Seven Days in Tehran (France, 2002) offers perspective on moderate/fundamentalist political struggles in contemporary Iran 7 p.m. Raoul Peck (Lumumba) examines the effects of capitalism on his native Haiti in Profit and Nothing But (2001) 9 p.m.
