Steven Rea: This Week's Picks

Lunafest. William Penn Charter School, 3000 W. School House Lane, 2 p.m. today. Tickets $10. A national tour of six short films by, for, and about women, the 15th annual Lunafest program consists of Balsa Wood, about mixed-race siblings, from U.K. filmmaker Dominique Lecchi; Beach Flags, an animated piece about an Iranian lifeguard, from France's Sarah Saidan; Boxeadora, about female boxing in Cuba, from Oakland, Calif.'s Meg Smaker; Finding June, about a deaf woman diagnosed with breast cancer, by Los Angeles' Anna Schumacher; First World Problems, in which a housewife loses her car in a shopping mall lot, from Finland's Hanna Maylett; and Raising Ryland, about parenting and transgender issues, from California's Sarah Feeley.

Proceeds from the event go to the Breast Cancer Fund and the Penn Charter Women's Legacy Fund, which supports girls' athletics. Info: 215-844-3460, Ext. 280; www.lunafest.org.

Blue Is the Warmest Color. International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 7 p.m. Wednesday. A free - yes, free! - screening of what's easily one of the best films of 2013, Abdellatif Kechiche's heartbreaker about a French high school girl (Adèle Exarchopoulos) who falls in love with an art student (Léa Seydoux) and the relationship - deeply sexual, deeply intimate - that ensues. Controversial for its explicit sex scenes and Kechiche's reportedly abusive, exploitive filmmaking style, the three-hour Blue - based on a French graphic novel - nonetheless captures with searing force two women in the throes of love. One is sarching for her identity as a woman and a lover, the other trying to juggle conflicting spheres of ambition, desire, art, and love. Sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum, part of its "Cinema, Censorship, and the Scandal of Sex" series. RSVPs are requested for free admission.

Info:www.ihousephilly.org/ calendar/blue-is-the-warmest-color.

Leprechaun. Ruba Club, 416 Green St., 9 p.m. Thursday. Tickets $8 at the door. What better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than with a rollicking screening of the 1993 horror comedy about a vengeful little Irishman (Warwick Davis) who goes on a killing spree? The trike-riding title character leaves no Blarney stone unturned in his quest to retrieve a fabled pot of gold. Trivia note: Leprechaun marked the feature film debut of Jennifer Aniston. Part of the Cinema Ray group's ongoing series, with food, drink, oddball animated shorts, and other surprises. Info: cinemaray.org/ events.html.