Ross McElwee (U.S., 2011). Ross McElwee and Scott MacDonald in conversation. When McElwee finds himself increasingly exasperated by his son's addiction to technology, he decides to revisit his own youth, retracing a trip to France he made in his early twenties. A poetic meditation on looking back in order to move forward. (84 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 1954). New 35mm print! Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Varda's 1954 debut about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague.” (90 mins)

(U.S./China, 2007-10). Scott MacDonald in person. Films by innovative Sensory Ethnography Lab contributors-Lucien Castaing-Taylor's Hell Roaring Creek, J.P. Sniadecki's Songhua, and Stephanie Spray's Untitled-as well as Cambridge veteran's Alfred Guzzetti's Still Point. Followed by a booksigning. (78 mins)

Hal Ashby (U.S., 1979). Catch Peter Sellers in one of his greatest roles, as a simple-minded gardener whose television-soaked catchphrases are mistaken for wisdom by tycoons and politicians. “Sellers gives one of his finest portrayals” (Dave Kehr). (103 mins)

Atsushi Funahashi (Japan, 2012). Atsushi Funahashi and David Slater in conversation. An astute documentary about the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster and its continuing aftermath. (96 mins)

Milos Forman (U.S., 1984). Director's Cut! BAM/PFA Collection Print. Introduced by Paul Zaentz. Peter Shaffer rewrote history in his “black opera” Amadeus, then rewrote the play for Forman's color extravaganza starring Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Screenplay, and Sound Design. (180 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1965). “Godard's conceptual masterpiece is a hardboiled, Pop Art, sci-fi gloss on Cocteau's Orpheus and Orwell's 1984” (Village Voice). (98 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1968). Restored Print! Ray weaves elements of folklore, classical and popular music, dance, and drama into this fairy tale in which two village boys set out on a host of uproarious adventures, and in the end are beautifully rewarded for their work for peace. (132 mins)

Jan Nemec (Czechoslovakia, 1964). New Print! Pure cinema at its leanest, Diamonds has only a few lines of dialogue and no real “plot” as it follows two boys escaping a Nazi concentration camp train. A brilliantly stylized, expressionist nightmare in film form. With short, A Loaf of Bread. (75 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard et al. (France, 1967). A unique collaboration by seven noted directors-William Klein, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Joris Ivens, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, and Alain Resnais-produced as a fundraiser for the Vietnamese. (115 mins)

Ermanno Olmi (Italy, 1961). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Olmi's humane, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young man embarking on his first job in Milan captures the alienation and regimentation of the working world. (93 mins)

Jan Nemec (Czech Republic, 2001). This experimental-video counterpart to Kafka's Letter to Father finds Nemec turning a fish-eye lens on himself and Prague to create an experimental personal essay film. Followed by free screening of Nemec's1975 feature, Metamorphosis, a rare, made-for-German-television adaptation of the Kafka tale. (120 mins)

Harold Ramis (U.S., 1980). Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Rodney Dangerfield star in this classic satire of the haves and have-nots, played out on the yuppie-and-rodent-infested grounds of a crusty country club. The gleefully rude and crude archetype of countless eighties comedies. (98 mins)

Jan Nemec (Czechoslovakia, 1966). Archival Print! Sinister thugs blithely interrupt Sunday countryside revelers and start taking names, in Nemec's notorious parable on conformity and rule, banned “forever” by an incensed Czechoslovak government. With short, Mother and Son. (80 mins).

Jan Nemec, Vera Chytilova, Jaromil Jires, Jiri Menzel, Evald Schorm (Czechoslovakia, 1966). Archival Print! Representing a who's-who of the Czech New Wave, this omnibus adapts the stories of Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, whose work embraced the nation's many outsiders, dreamers, and drunks. (107 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1971). Restored Print! A shrewd satire on the American-styled business world of Calcutta."One of Ray's best films" (David Robinson, London Times). (112 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1967). Godard's 1967 Pop-agitprop portrait of revolutionary youth. “Feels like a trial run for the May 1968 revolution. See it by any means necessary!" (Time Out NY) (99 mins)

Philip Kaufman (U.S., 1988). BAM/PFA Collection Print! Adapted from Milan Kundera's novel, this grand romance begins during the Prague Spring of 1968 and stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a philandering surgeon. With Jan Nemec's Oratorio for Prague, which chronicles events following the Prague Spring. Screening in the series Diamonds of the Night: Jan Nemec. (200 mins)

Philip Kaufman (U.S., 1988). BAM/PFA Collection Print! Adapted from Milan Kundera's novel, this grand romance begins during the Prague Spring of 1968 and stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a philandering surgeon. With Jan Nemec's Oratorio for Prague, which chronicles events following the Prague Spring. (200 mins)

A selection of short films made by Godard and excerpted from omnibus films. (104 mins)

Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark/Norway/U.K., 2012). Director's Cut! “I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal and frightening in at least a decade,” says Werner Herzog of this astounding Academy Award–nominated documentary in which notorious death-squad chiefs brazenly reenact heinous crimes they committed during the 1960s Indonesian genocide. (159 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1963). New Digital Restoration! Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Godard's Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking”(Film Comment). With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Fritz Lang himself. (103 mins)

Jan Nemec (Czech Republic, 2005). A love letter from one outsider to another, Toyen is a fittingly fragmented, dream-like tribute to the painter Toyen, a key figure in the Czech Surrealist movement who lived under Nazi occupation in Prague. (73 mins)

John Hughes (U.S., 1987). Steve Martin and John Candy are two accidental companions in this road movie gone awry, from director John Hughes (The Breakfast Club). “Hughes at the peak of his powers, and two masterful comedians at theirs” (New Times). (93 mins)

Jan Nemec (Czechoslovakia, 1967). Archival Print! Three interwoven tales of the lovelorn are brought to life in Nemec's romantic work, inspired by the visions of the Czech Surrealist Group and the streets of Prague themselves. Photography by Miroslav Ondrícek, Milos Forman's regular cameraman. (71 mins)

Tim Burton (U.S., 1988). Tim Burton's out-there remix of the ghost story involving two ghosts (Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis) out to scare the inhabitants of their old house, with help from ghastly ghoul Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton). This brilliantly inventive work launched Burton's career. (92 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1975). Restored Print! A black comedy shot in the early days of Indira Gandhi's "emergency rule," The Middleman reveals a Calcutta of rampant unemployment, declining basic services, and politically inspired violence. Won Ray the West Bengal Oscar equivalents for best film, direction, and screenplay. (134 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1967) A surreally funny and deeply disturbing expression of social oblivion that ended the first phase of Godard's career. “(Godard's) best film, and his most inventive. It is almost pure movie” (Roger Ebert). (105 mins)

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Veréna Paravel (France/U.K./U.S., 2012). Lucien Castaing-Taylor in person. A thrilling adventure both on the high seas and in documentary storytelling, Leviathan immerses viewers in the waterlogged world of fishermen toiling on a creaking trawler. “Looks and sounds like no other documentary in memory” (Dennis Lim, NY Times). (87 mins)

Gus Van Sant (U.S., 1991). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Gus Van Sant's melancholic portrait of street hustlers in Portland follows a narcoleptic Mike (River Phoenix) and his best friend Scott (Keanu Reeves) as they embark on a journey to find Mike's mother. With “magnetic performances from Reeves and Phoenix" (Rolling Stone).

Jan Nemec (Czech Republic, 2009). Nemec returns to the Prague Spring and his own Oratorio for Prague with this oblique look at memory, love, and politics. Followed by a free screening of the recent Czech TV documentary on Nemec and the Czechoslovak New Wave, Golden Sixties: Jan Nemec. (136 mins)

Neto Villalobos (Costa Rica, 2013). An impoverished security guard struggles to care for a fighting rooster in this quixotic Costa Rican comedy anchored by stellar performances from a mostly nonprofessional cast. (85 mins)

Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran, 2013). Iranian writer-director Rasoulof extends his uncompromising body of work with a taut, finely woven drama based on real-life events impacting a small circle of aging writers menaced by the Secret Service. (127 mins)

Amit Dutta (India, 2013). Celebrated Indian filmmaker Dutta fuses painterly technique and cinematic vision to form an engrossing meditation on the artistic legacy of northern India's lush Kangra Valley. (70 mins)

Hubert Sauper (France/Austria, 2013). Intrepid documentarian Sauper (Darwin's Nightmare) delivers a piercing examination of the human cost of neocolonialism in newly independent South Sudan. (110 mins)

Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan, 2013). An apathetic recent college graduate in small-town Japan finds herself with two choices: either sabotage her father's budding romance, or find a place for herself in the world. (78 mins)

Vivian Qu (China, 2013). What's it like to be a twenty-first-century young adult in China's surveillance state? Qu's slow-building noir uses a simple boy-meets-girl tale to unearth a hidden world of government control just below the surface. (94 mins)

Sara Dosa (U.S., 2014). This sensitive, probing documentary examines the bond between two mushroom hunters in Oregon, an elderly Vietnam vet and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, during one unusually hard season. (79 mins)

Joaquim Pinto (Portugal, 2013). Pinto poetically, dynamically, and candidly chronicles a year of his life as he undergoes experimental treatment for HIV and VHC infections in this epic yet personal documentary. (164 mins)

Eleven experimental films reflect on the past, illuminate the present, and imagine the future. Works by Basma Alsharif, Bruce Baillie, Paul Clipson, Martha Colburn, Su Friedrich, Jim Jennings, Lawrence Jordan, Lewis Klahr, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Charlotte Pryce, and John Smith. (80 mins)

Levan Koguashvili (Georgia, 2013). Single and forty, Sandro hopes to find love with a hairdresser, but there's a catch: her husband is getting out of prison. This low-key, comic gem is a wonderful introduction to the Georgian New Wave. (95 mins)

Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania/France, 2013). Continuing his very particular parsing of language and politics-here, the politics are cinematic-Porumboiu tells the story of a film director rehearsing the details of a nude scene with his lead actress. (89 mins)

Roberto Minervini (U.S./Belgium/Italy, 2013). This unique hybrid of documentary and narrative offers an evocative portrait of the quotidian lives of a devout young Christian goat farmer and a bull-riding cowboy in Texas's rural Bible belt. (100 mins)

Mike Fleiss (U.S., 2014). Bob Weir, “the other one,” steps out of Grateful Dead bandmate Jerry Garcia's shadow and into the spotlight in this expansive documentary filled with performance footage, home movies, and reminiscences. (90 mins)

Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan, 1999). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Welcome to the afterlife of Kore-eda's remarkable film, where a busy crew of angels reenacts the favorite memories of the recently deceased. Entwining documentary and reality, After Life is, as Kore-eda states, "a film about memory, and also a film about what it means to make films." (115 mins)

Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan/France, 2013). A poverty-stricken father and his two young children try to survive in modern-day Taipei in this often mysterious work, yet another remarkable piece of cinema from the great Tsai. (138 mins)

Robin Campillo (France, 2013). This erotically charged nail-biter takes the audience on an unexpected ride when a fiftysomething Parisian businessman propositions an eastern European immigrant hustler. (128 mins)