Film
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FAMILY STORY David and Albert Maysles’s documentary “The Burks of Georgia” (1976) is screened in Brooklyn. The filmmaking brothers’ movie follows a tightly knit clan who live on a small plot of land with 10 children and their very extended family. The screening is paired with Richard Leacock’s short “Chiefs” (1968), which covers a police convention in Hawaii. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barbes, 376 9th St. at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-965-9177, free.
