A love story like no other, The Cycle of Love is an inspiring, heart-warming, epic true-life adventure about the search for self-belief and risking everything for what your heart tells you. In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family, picked up a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle and set off on a 6000-mile cross-continent mission—to find Lotta, the woman who had captured his heart.
The Cycle of Love
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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies
The Cycle of Love
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"Delicate and heartwarming, Orlando von Einsiedel’s stirring documentary The Cycle of Love is the kind of film whose sweet subject transcends time and borders."
PAST EVENTS
Q&A with director Orlando von Einsiedel, film subject P.K. Mahanandia, and other special guests
Sunday, Aug. 30 2026, 2:00
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- Orlando von Einsiedel is an Academy Award-winning director and the founder of Grain Media. His work includes Academy Award-winning short documentary The White Helmets; Academy Award-nominated feature documentary Virunga; British Independent Film Award-winning feature documentary Evelyn; Academy Award-winning Learning to Skateboard in a War Zone (If You're a Girl), which he executive produced; EMMY nominated Lost and Found for National Geographic, EMMY nominated Convergence: Courage in a Crisis for Netflix, critically acclaimed series Heart of Invictus, Netflix smash hit The Lost Children and new feature documentary The Cycle of Love.
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