Errol Morris (U.S., 2011). Introduced by Linda Williams. Seeking to understand the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs, Errol Morris looks outside the frame. “As a human document of what people are capable of in wartime, it's indispensable” (Christian Science Monitor). (117 mins)

Woody Allen (U.S., 1979). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Woody Allen's visual love poem to the city of his heart. With Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta. (107 mins)

Jean Rouch (France/Niger/Ghana, 1955–67). A "bandit" tax collector, a cattle herder, and a fisherman migrate south from Niger to find their fortunes in Ghana in what Rouch described as “a postcard in the service of the imaginary." With Rouch's best-known film, Les maîtres fous. (116 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1961). Archival print! A charity campaign suggests “Sit a Poor Person at Your Table” in Berlanga's frantic, gag-riddled romp. Filled with hilarious barbs, impious prattle, and high society comeuppance, you'll revel in a surplus of black humor. (85 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1956). Hitchcock adopts the semidocumentary fashion of film noir to spin off the frightening possibilities when an innocent man, New York jazz player Manny (Henry Fonda), is named as the guilty party in a holdup. (105 mins)

Jacques Deray (France, 1973). In Jacques Deray's masterpiece, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a hit man dispatched from Paris to Los Angeles to assassinate the local mob boss, but his employers have set him up to be hit by “inside man” Roy Scheider. Also starring Angie Dickinson. (110 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1964). Archival print! An official executioner must appoint a successor who, if luck has it, will also marry his desirable daughter. Berlanga's masterpiece is a dark comedy backlit by the knowledge that in Franco's regime execution was the penalty of choice. (88 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany/Portugal, 1986). Magdalena Montezuma (in her last film) stars as the regal mother of a “rose king” in love with a muscular youth, in this florid tribute to silent-film melodrama, by way of Jack Smith, Jean Genet, and Maria Callas. “One of the high points of eighties world cinema” (Film Comment). (106 mins)

Jean Rouch (France/Niger, 1970). This follow-up to Jaguar finds our African protagonists in Paris, where they collect information on the curious habits of Parisian residents, in an often comical performance of reverse ethnography. “A truly mesmerizing, frequently hilarious, and provocative masterpiece” (Eric Kohn). With short Tourou and Bitti: The Drums of the Past. (100 mins)

Werner Schroeter (France/West Germany, 1976). Magdalena Montezuma, Bulle Ogier, and Udo Kier headline Schroeter's four-part narrative that swings from 1949 Cuba to modern France, “parodying along the way everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to French art films of the twenties” (TIFF Cinematheque). (170 mins)

Werner Herzog (U.S./U.K./Germany, 2008). Werner Herzog's very first film concept centered on a prison. Decades later, he reflects on a triple murder in a small Texas town through interviews with two men convicted of the killings. “A disquieting, heartbreaking look at American crime and punishment” (Hollywood Reporter). (107 mins)

Spike Lee (U.S., 1989). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Lee's third feature, a lively, frequently hilarious but hard-hitting drama, charts mounting racial tensions on the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. “The funniest, most stylized, most visceral New York street scene this side of Scorseseland” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). (120 mins)

Jean Rouch (France/Ivory Coast, 1959–61). Rouch worked with students in Abidjan, Ivory Coast to enact a story about the arrival of a new white girl, and her effect on the interactions of black and white students. Followed by Manthia Diawara's invaluable introduction to Rouch, Rouch in Reverse. (140 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1963). The Birds does for our fine feathered friends what Psycho did for showers, as a seaside community (Bodega Bay) is terrorized when seemingly normal birds turn suddenly and inexplicably malevolent. Noted for its rapid montage of attack sequences and Bernard Herrmann's score, composed entirely of manipulated bird sounds. (120 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1970). Archival print! Hoping to seduce some Swedish sirens before getting married, a timid bank clerk leaves his ailing mother behind and heads to the beach; when his mother dies, however, things get comically complicated. (83 mins)

Costa-Gavras (France/Algeria, 1969). Yves Montand, Irene Papas, and Jean-Louis Trintignant star in a true classic of political suspense, made by exiles including Greek director Costa-Gavras. (125 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1931). New imported 35mm print! An inveterately bored couple use an unexpected inheritance to “suffer a sea change,” in Shakespeare's words, and suffer they do, as one courts a gold-digger and the other a “gentleman” in Hitchcock's early sound film, both suspense and comedy, both rich and very, very strange. (81 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1964). Sean Connery is a wealthy magnate attracted to icy blonde Tippi Hedren-not only for her beauty, but because she's a thief. Hitchcock's controversial psychological mystery, part thriller, was for the director an exploration of “the fetish idea.” (130 mins)

Jean Rouch (Netherlands/France/Niger, 1993). Archival Print! This act of collaborative mythmaking follows three African friends (the heroes of both Jaguar and Little by Little) on a rollercoaster ride from drought-stricken Niger to inundated Holland and back again. With Mozambique short Makwayela. (128 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain/France, 1973). Archival print! Michel Piccoli is a Parisian oral surgeon with a new lover: a life-size sex doll from Japan. By turns rapturously absurd and innocently obscene, Tamaño natural is really about the demure dentist's estrangement from things human and fleshy. (101 mins)

Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin (France, 1960–61). This landmark documentary influenced the French New Wave, and much of documentary filmmaking. Rouch asks passing Parisians, “Are you happy?” with fascinating results. With a short portrait of Rouch, Une brève histoire de cinema. (107 mins)

Djibril Diop-Mambéty (Senegal, 1973). Imported 35mm restored print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two youths cruise the streets of Dakar on a motorbike, looking for adventure and scams, in this African Easy Rider, awash with the raw energy of urban Senegal and global psychedelic youth culture. “Surreal, richly sumptuous, quite extraordinary” (Telegraph UK). (88 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1978). Archival print! An oily manufacturer sponsors a hunt on the estate of a nobleman who has fallen on hard times. Berlanga's madcap Escopeta (Shotgun) stays on target with a load of high-impact and hilarious shot. (95 mins)

Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy, 1970). Jean-Louis Trintignant is a suave intellectual who has risen through the ranks of Mussolini's fascist government, a conformist who now faces his ultimate orders: to assassinate his former mentor, an antifascist professor. “A great film, drunkenly beautiful and deeply disturbing” (David Thomson). (116 mins)

Krzysztof Kieślowski (Switzerland/France/Poland, 1994). Imported 35mm Print! A chance encounter brings together two solitary individuals-a model (Irène Jacob) and a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant)-in Kieslowski's meditation on the need for "fraternity." (99 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1940). An apolitical reporter (Joel McCrea) in Europe during World War II gets drawn into an international espionage plot in Hitchcock's quick-moving wartime entertainment, “the best spy thriller of all time” (American Cinematographer). None other than Josef Goebbels called it “a masterpiece of propaganda.” (120 mins)

Leonard Retel Helmrich (The Netherlands/Indonesia, 2010). Leonard Retel Helmrich and Daniel L. Miller in Conversation. Three generations of a Jakarta family face an uneasy present and an uncertain future in this riveting documentary on globalization, religion, and family aspirations in contemporary Southeast Asia. (111 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1960). Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and a hotel shower star in Hitchcock's legendary, groundbreaking thriller. One of the most influential horror films ever made. Score by Bernard Herrmann and title design by Saul Bass. (109 mins)

Alain Robbe-Grillet (France, 1968). Imported 35mm Print! A film crew boards a train to Antwerp and impulsively decides to cast a fellow passenger (Jean-Louis Trintignant) as a drug runner, with strange, sexual, and fetishistic results. “As challenging and influential again today as it was in the 1960s” (Senses of Cinema). (105 mins)

Leonard Retel Helmrich (The Netherlands/Indonesia, 2001). Archival print! Leonard Retel Helmrich and Daniel L. Miller in Conversation. The fall of longtime ruler Suharto left Indonesia in turmoil; this remarkable documentary follows the changes through the eyes of an “ordinary” Jakarta family. Visionary, complex camera techniques add to this riveting film. (94 mins)

Leonard Retel Helmrich (The Netherlands/ Indonesia, 2004). Archival print! Leonard Retel Helmrich in person. Winner of Sundance's 2004 World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Shape of the Moon follows one Indonesian family navigating their country's myriad partitions: between urban and rural, Muslim and Christian, old world and new. (92 mins)

Peter Weir (U.S., 1998). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank, living a life completely planned (by the Hollywood producer of a reality show starring the unwitting Truman) in a completely planned community based on Seaside, Florida. (103 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1972). A man accused of rape and murder plans a deadly revenge on the real killer in this disturbing London-set thriller. “Hitchcock at 73 proved he could still excite. . . . Although his vision of life here is bleak to the point of hopelessness, he is more comically macabre than ever” (Andrew Sarris). (116 mins)

Sergei Loznitsa (Germany/Latvia/Russia/Netherlands/Belarus, 2012). Two partisans plan to kill a Belorussian railway worker suspected of Nazi sympathies in this dreamlike movie, but what actually ends up happening among the three men is a complicated story involving guilt, betrayal, and defiance. (128 mins)

Dan Krauss (U.S., 2012). In this chilling documentary, Bay Area-based Dan Krauss explores the deeply disturbing story of U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan in 2009 who were convicted of murdering innocent civilians. (79 mins)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan, 2012). (Shokuzai). Kiyoshi Kurosawa's epic new work, told in five parts over five hours, is a riveting drama about a mother whose daughter is killed and the four childhood friends who witnessed the crime. Shown with a 10-minute intermission. (300 mins)

Francesco Rosi (Italy, 1972). (Il caso Mattei). A newly restored version of Rosi's crackling political thriller based on the life and mysterious death of Italy's legendary postwar energy czar, Enrico Mattei. As revelatory now as it was in 1972; “a massively underrated masterpiece” (Alex Cox). (116 mins)

James Sansing in person. Nine recent experimental films look at troubling facts and surprising moments with beauty and inventiveness. Includes new films by Deborah Stratman, Katherin McInnis, Bobby Abate, Ali Cherri, Karen Yaskinksky, James Sansing, Peter Rose, Lonnie von Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, and Scott Stark. (89 mins)

Frantisek Vlácil (Czech Republic, 1966). In memory of George Gund III (1937–2013). An elliptical story of rivalry and revenge in medieval Bohemia, this rarely seen work evokes Kurosawa or Mizoguchi: intense, poetic, and devastatingly cinematic. (162 mins)

Moussa Touré (France/Senegal/Germany, 2012). (La pirogue). Senegalese director Moussa Touré offers an unvarnished glimpse into a common but often deadly immigrant journey, taking us on a perilous sea voyage with thirty West African immigrants heading for Spain. (87 mins)

Kenji Uchida (Japan, 2012), (Kagi dorobo no mesoddo). Kenji Uchida in person. A depressed and unemployed actor switches lives with a Yakuza assassin in Kenji Uchida's brilliantly conceived and executed Japanese screwball comedy. (128 mins)

Marcel Gisler (Switzerland, 2013). Jaded gay novelist Lorenz returns home to provincial Switzerland to care for his ailing mother (scene-stealing Sibylle Brunner) in this gently humorous crowd-pleaser-nominated for six Swiss Film Awards-that deftly disentangles the familial and romantic ties that bind. (106 mins)

Kalyanee Mam (Cambodia/U.S., 2012). (Kbang tuk tonle). Kalyanee Mam and editor Chris Brown in person. In vivid cinema-vérité style, Bay Area filmmaker Kalyanee Mam presents an intimate and moving portrait of the vanishing world of rural farmers and fishermen in Cambodia. (83 mins)

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Veréna Paravel (France/U.K./U.S., 2012). A thrilling adventure both on the high seas and in documentary storytelling, Leviathan immerses viewers in the waterlogged world of fishermen toiling in the dead of night on a creaking trawler off the coast of Massachusetts. (87 mins)

William Vega (Colombia/France/Mexico, 2012). A shy teenage orphan seeks shelter on the shores of a mist-shrouded lagoon in this coming-of-age tale set in the lonely, enchanted landscapes of the high Andes. (88 mins)

Ilian Metev (Germany/Bulgaria/Croatia, 2012). (Poslednata lineika na Sofia). On the front lines of a degraded emergency-care system in Sofia, Bulgaria, an over-extended, yet emphatically humane, paramedic crew hurtles frantically from one call to the next in a dilapidated ambulance. (75 mins)