It's an old sailor's expression: Water, water everywhere, so let's make a film festival about it. The 12th annual San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival heeds the siren song of the sea with a flotilla of short and feature-length films. The festival kicks off four days of films today with Program 1 and the West Coast premiere of Invasion of the Giant Tortoises. The documentary is not about monster turtles bent on world domination, but it is about a controversial project to return giant tortoises to the African nation of Mauritius by replacing the long-extinct native variety with a close-enough nearby version, and its impact on the ecosystem. To see what the kids are up to, Sunday's Program 7 is screening films from Bay Area students for the unbeatable price of free with an RSVP through the festival's website.
The San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival kicks off at 4 p.m. at the Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, S.F. Individual tickets $10-$15, $225 festival pass; oceanfilmfest.org.
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