Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1945). Analyst Ingrid Bergman probes the guilt-ridden psyche of Gregory Peck and finds clues to a murder in this Hitchcock whodunit. Dream sequences designed by Salvador Dalí. (111 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1946). Trying to infiltrate a group of Nazis in Latin America, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves entangled in a cruel love affair. Hitchcock's polished, perverse thriller exploits an espionage plot to explore the nature of love and loyalty. (101 mins)

Roger Vadim (France, 1956). Imported 35mm Print! One of the most famous French films of the 1950s stars Brigitte Bardot as a blonde, sexually restless eighteen-year-old who gets entangled with an older brother/younger brother pair (Christian Marquand and Jean-Louis Trintignant). 
(91 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1970). Three high-stepping women pass through the cabarets, dance halls, and pastry shops of wartime and postwar Germany in Schroeter's irreverently grotesque pastiche of the legacy of Nazism. With Winter Journey (1980), a loose adaptation of Jean Genet's Querelle. (120 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1949). Imported 35mm print! Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton star in this colonial gothic/romantic melodrama, “easily one of Hitchcock's half-dozen greatest films . . . senselessly neglected just because it isn't a thriller” (Dave Kehr). Cinematography by the legendary Jack Cardiff. (117 mins)

Werner Schroeter (Germany/Austria, 1991). "In one of the rare truly visual films about writers, Werner Schroeter generates extravagant images to match the insights of the nameless writer he films-played with ferocious precision by Huppert" (New Yorker). Written by Elfriede Jelinek from Ingeborg Bachmann's novel. (125 mins)

Vlatko Gilić (Yugoslavia, 1970–73). A rare opportunity to see Serbian filmmaker Vlatko Gilić's haunting, beautiful-and mostly wordless-short films of the seventies. “Gilić's films are called documentaries. But he's superb at finding the astonishing images that lurk in the ordinary world” (New York Times). (102 mins)

François Truffaut (France, 1959). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Truffaut's quintessential coming-of-age film is a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris, naturalistically captured by cinematographer Henri Decaë. (99 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1947). Italian actress Alida Valli stars as an elegant woman accused of killing her blind husband, with Gregory Peck the unhappily married lawyer hired to defend her. Per Hitchcock: “the degradation of a gentleman who becomes enamored of . . . a nymphomaniac.” With Charles Laughton and Louis Jourdan. (115 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1980). A Sicilian immigrant in Wolfsburg descends into madness and murder in Schroeter's Pasolini-by-way-of-Fassbinder drama. “Schroeter at his artistically most complex, all-embracing, and all-encompassing” (Cinema Scope). (175 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1948). Hitchcock's tale of two young men who attempt the perfect murder was infamously shot to resemble one long, continuous take. “Not merely a stunt that is justified by the extraordinary career that contains it, but one of the movies that makes that career extraordinary” (New York Times). (80 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1953). Montgomery Clift is a priest who hears a killer's confession and is himself accused of the crime in Hitchcock's sober and often compelling reflection on crime, punishment, and forgiveness. Shot on location in Quebec City. (95 mins)

Valerio Zurlini (Italy/France, 1959). Imported 35mm Print! Set in 1943, the year that saw the fall of Mussolini and the start of the civil war between fascists and antifascists, Violent Summer features Trintignant, at his most handsome, as a fasco-brat who meets a patrician widow. (100 mins)

Werner Schroeter (France/Germany/Portugal, 2002). Isabelle Huppert delivers two of her greatest performances as a pair of twin sisters in Schroeter's “gorgeously composed, utterly berserk, and immensely moving work stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, cabaret singers, and more, all awash in opera arias” (TIFF Cinematheque). (117 mins)

Jean Rouch (France/Ivory Coast, 1958). In this playful yet enlightening portrait of the immigrant experience, Rouch enlists a modern-day griot who narrates his and his friends' everyday experiences in the Ivory Coast during the last period of French colonialism. With experimental short narrative Gare du Nord. (88 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1944). Imported 35mm print! Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix are among the characters adrift on a lifeboat in the Atlantic during World War II in Hitchcock's controversial wartime film, “a microcosm of the war” for the director. With short Bon Voyage. (122 mins)

Leandro Katz (U.S., 1972–2001). Leandro Katz in person. Argentine artist Leandro Katz presents a selection of his stunning short films from two research projects centered on significant moments in Latin American history, from the United Fruit Company to Che Guevara. (84 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak's beauty in Hitchcock's sinister ode to voyeurism, death, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1971). Schroeter sets Oscar Wilde's notorious play about the female temptress amid ancient Roman ruins in Lebanon, complete with eye-catchingly bizarre costumes and a music track culled from Arabic folk songs, Verdi, and Wagner. Pasolini combined with high opera and paganism: “sublimely severe” (Chuck Stephens, Film Comment). With early theatrical featurette Neurasia (1969). (122 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1958). IB Tech print! Introduction by film scholar Doug Cunningham. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak's beauty in Hitchcock's sinister ode to voyeurism, death, and amorous fixation. Voted best film of all time in 2012 Sight and Sound poll. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)

Debbie Lum (U.S., 2012). Debbie Lum in person. An aging white man with “yellow fever,” finds a young Chinese bride named Sandy through the Internet, but they soon discover that their dreams of perfect love do not match bitter reality. An honest, intimate documentary about culture, love, and the immigrant experience. (84 mins)

Ernesto Foronda/Silas Howard (U.S., 2012). Ernesto Foronda in person. Two ex-lovers reluctantly reunite to retrieve a lost cooler in this electric ramble across nocturnal Los Angeles, starring Monique Gabriela Curnen (Finishing the Game; The Dark Knight) and Sung Kang (Fast and Furious; The Motel). (87 mins)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 2012). Jennifer Phang in person. The Cannes-winning director of Tropical Malady returns with another mystical, magical blend of documentary, narrative and fable, set in the crumbling Mekong Hotel near the Thai/Laos border. With Jennifer Phang's new short, Advantageous. (84 mins)

Benito Bautista (U.S., 2012). Benito Bautista, Florante Aguilar, Emma Francisco in person. In this award-winning feature documentary, director Benito Bautista and guitarist Florante Aguilar bring to light the long-abandoned Philippine art of harana (serenade). Three of the tradition's last surviving practitioners perform songs never before captured on film. (103 mins)

Zhang Yuan (China, 2012). In the latest film from controversial filmmaker Zhang Yuan (Beijing Bastards), the displaced youth of Beijing may be down and out, but they find solace in a makeshift family-one another. With short Shanghai Strangers, directed by Joan Chen. (120 mins)

Kim Tae-yong, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gu Changwei, Ann Hui (China, 2012). Beauty comes to the forefront in this omnibus collection of shorts from four of Asia's greatest filmmakers. Includes Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker. (90 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2012). Royston Tan in person. “Old places are like old lovers to me, you never forget them,” says director Royston Tan. In this sequel to the documentary Old Places, Tan takes us on a fond outing to experience Singapore through the recollections of everyday citizens. (77 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2012). Royston Tan in person. “Old places are like old lovers to me, you never forget them,” says director Royston Tan. In this sequel to the documentary Old Places, Tan takes us on a fond outing to experience Singapore through the recollections of everyday citizens. Screening in our series Afterimage: The Films of Singapore's Royston Tan. (77 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2007). Royston Tan in person. Singapore's resident bad-boy Royston Tan pays tribute to his country's kitschiest love-getai, stage musicals that are part small-time Vegas revues and full-time campy fun-in this delirious comedy involving the Papaya Sisters, who dream of winning a national contest. (105 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2007). Royston Tan in person. Singapore's resident bad-boy Royston Tan pays tribute to his country's kitschiest love-getai, stage musicals that are part small-time Vegas revues and full-time campy fun-in this delirious comedy involving the Papaya Sisters, who dream of winning a national contest. Screening in our series Afterimage: The Films of Singapore's Royston Tan. (105 mins)

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 2010). This Palme d'Or-winner melds the last dying encounters of a farmer, Boonmee, with a gorgeously rendered landscape enlivened by the presence of ghostly apparitions. This is not magical realism, but realistic magic. (113 mins)

Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy/Algeria, 1966). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. “Because of its perfect fusion of form and content, one of the most strikingly successful subversive films ever made (Amos Vogel).(123 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2003). Royston Tan and Valerie Soe in conversation. High-velocity angst in an artificial Eden, Royston Tan's irreverent first feature dredges up an underworld of teen dropouts, druggies, and dead-enders. (93 mins)

Royston Tan (Singapore, 2003). Royston Tan and Valerie Soe in conversation. High-velocity angst in an artificial Eden, Royston Tan's irreverent first feature dredges up an underworld of teen dropouts, druggies, and dead-enders. Screening in our series Afterimage: The Films of Singapore's Royston Tan. (93 mins)

Sion Sono (Japan, 2012). An earthquake and nuclear crisis forces two Japanese families to decide what is worth sacrificing in the name of safety in this alternately naturalistic and surreal work, the first feature inspired by the 2011 Tohoku-Fukushima disaster. From the director of Suicide Club and Love Exposure. (133 mins)

Deepa Dhanraj (India, 2012). Defiantly eschewing Western portraits of Muslim women, Deepa Dhanraj (Something Like a War) explores the first women's jamaat-traditionally a male institution-in South India, where women are raising their voices and enacting new interpretations of Sharia law to demand gender equality. (85 mins)

Edwin (Indonesia, 2012). Raised in Jakarta's zoo, the orphan Lana knows only the world of animals, until she meets a handsome magician who leads her to the outside world, where far stranger beings await. A captivating, poetic portrait of Indonesia's capital city, from the director of The Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly. (96 mins)

Chang Jung-Chi (Taiwan, 2012). Taiwan's official entry to this year's Academy Awards and a production of Wong Kar-wai's trend-setting Jet Tone company, Touch of the Light presents the true story of a blind musician who leaves his small village to become the first visually impaired music student at his university. (110 mins)

Kim Gwang Hun, Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans (Belgium/North Korea/U.K., 2012). Plucky coal-miner Comrade Kim abandons her life in a suspiciously cheerful industrial village to head to Pyongyang and become . . . a circus trapeze artist. This sprightly, fairytale-like romantic comedy shows off a side of North Korea you've probably never imagined. (83 mins)

Jean Rouch (France/Niger, 1965). A chronicle of the technological aspects of lion hunting, filmed in northern Niger and Mali. “A fascinating account” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). With Ghana short Mammy Water. (95 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1956). This remake of Hitchcock's own 1934 spy film stars Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day as an American couple caught up in a spy ring and an assassination attempt while visiting Technicolor Marrakech. “One of the suspense master's best pictures” (San Francisco Chronicle). (120 mins)

Dino Risi (Italy, 1962). Imported 35mm Print! Il sorpasso is a pungent, satiric view of the economic boom of the late fifties and early sixties. Vittorio Gassman plays a seasoned playboy who tutors a reluctant student (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in the ways of the world. (105 mins)

Alain Cavalier (France, 1962). Cavalier's first feature embeds the political tensions of early-sixties France in a New Wave love triangle, with Anne (Romy Schneider) and Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant) as an almost a model bourgeois couple-except for Clément's jealous rages, and the fact that he is a right-wing extremist. (104 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1953). Archival print! A tiny Spanish backwater pulls out all the stops to reinvent itself as a postcard-perfect Andalusian village-complete with flamenco dancing, bullfights, and more-in order to impress delegates doling out financial rewards in Berlanga's satirical jab at Spanish national values. (86 mins)

Eric Rohmer (France, 1969). Imported 35mm Print! Language and philosophy form the centerpieces of seduction in Rohmer's elegant tale, involving a young Catholic (Jean-Louis Trintignant) holed up during a winter storm with the witty, seemingly irresistible divorcée, Maud. (105 mins)

Claude Lelouch (France, 1966). New Restored 35mm Print! Winner of both the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, A Man and a Woman boasts two of France's biggest stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant and the supernal Anouk Aimée, whose characters are both recovering from tragic loss. (102 mins)

In this special presentation, director of the Munich Filmmuseum Stefan Drössler illuminates the beginnings of Schroeter's film career through photos, documents, and tantalizing rare clips of Schroeter's first 8mm films and home movies, digitally preserved by the Munich Filmmuseum. (90 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1956). Archival print! An A-bomb-building physicist hides out from the nuclear age in a seaside town. Mistaken for a tramp, he's soon accepted as one of the townsfolk's own in this quirky, Pagnol-by-way-of-Spain comedy. (93 mins)

Introduced by Stefan Drössler. This presentation of Schroeter rarities, digitally preserved by the Munich Filmmuseum, features examples of his early experimental work, including his first 16mm film, Aggression, and Johannas Traum, which draws on unused footage of Candy Darling and Ingrid Caven in Schroeter's film The Death of Maria Malibran. (95 mins)