Josephine Baker dances on film at Seattle Art Museum, plus other local screenings

The documentary "Josephine Baker: Black Diva in a White Man's World" will screen Tuesday night at Seattle Art Museum, presented by the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. The film, making its Seattle premiere, features pioneering black dancers and choreographers (including Geoffrey Holder, Arthur Mitchell and Maurice Hines), as well as historians and biographers, speaking about the life and performances of dancer/ actress Josephine Baker. Spectrum Dance Theater's artistic director, Donald Byrd, will lead a post-screening chat. 7:30 p.m. at SAM's Plestcheeff Auditorium, 1300 First Ave., Seattle; suggested donation $5 at the door. For more information, see www.langstonarts.org.

The Children's Film Festival at Northwest Film Forum begins tonight and continues through Jan. 31 with an assortment of live performance (tonight features the music/video/dance performance "The Accumulation of Change," performed by Lelavision Physical Music), feature films from around the world, short-film collections and special events. See www.childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org for a full schedule of events (including age-specific recommendations, though many events are suitable for all); all screenings take place at NWFF, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle. For more information, call 206-267-5380.(For a full story on the festival, recently published in The Seattle Times, go to www.seattletimes.com and search "Feed your mind.")

And finally, this week's midnight movie at the Egyptian is Ang Lee's beautifully understated love story "Brokeback Mountain," starring Heath Ledger (in the performance that earned his first Oscar nomination) and Jake Gyllenhaal. Tonight and Saturday, 805 E. Pine St., Seattle; 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com.

Moira Macdonald: 206-464-2725 or mmacdonald@seattletimes.com