MOVIE: Filmfest DC continues its run tonight with 12 different features playing around town. We’ve heard great things about Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame, the first dramatic feature from young Iranian documentary filmmaker Hana Makhmalbaf, set under the end of the Taliban’s regime in Afghanistan. 6:30 p.m. at the Avalon Theater.

FOOD & DRINK: Via donrockwell, Pete’s Apizza opens today in Columbia Heights, right at the intersection of 14th and Irving. The new spot promises to serve up New Haven-style pies to the neighborhood.

MUSIC: Seattle-based post-punk outfit The Cops have the AV Club seal of approval, and are in town tonight to play the tiny upstairs stage at The Red and the Black with Maryland’s Bionicman. Bring your earplugs and your attitude. $10, 9:30 p.m.

READING: Paris Review editor Nathaniel Rich will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his debut novel, The Mayor’s Tongue. Don’t miss our interview with the author. 7 p.m.

CLASSICAL: The Orchestre National de France visit Washington tonight, hosted by Washington Performing Arts Society in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. French pianist David Fray will play Beethoven’s second piano concerto, and Kurt Masur will conduct the Bruckner seventh symphony. Tickets: $40 to $90, 8 p.m.

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