Laura Heit (US, 1997–2011). Laura Heit in person. Plus special performance and book signing. Heit's ingenious, do-it-yourself approach to animation takes a variety of forms and formats, including puppets, hand drawing, and computer animation. She will perform one of her Matchbook Shows featuring a miniature cabaret, and discuss her recent book, Animation Sketchbooks. (70 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1953 & 1955). A classic double bill of Kubrick's first two films, one an existentialist exercise in war's futility, the other a tough-as-nails noir set in the underbelly of New York City. (129 mins)

Andreas Johnsen (Denmark, 2013). The Fake Case follows Ai in the aftermath of imprisonment and a retaliatory lawsuit meant to silence him. Still undaunted, the artist rails against injustice on the Internet and creates his politically inflected art, such as S.A.C.R.E.D., an installation comprising scaled-down replicas of his jail cell. (89 mins)

Elia Kazan (US, 1955). 4K Digital Restoration! James Dean made a thrilling debut in this adaptation of a Steinbeck novel, which transposes the story of Cain and Abel to the Salinas Valley. (115 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1957). “Kubrick's first full-fledged masterpiece is a peerless insanity-of-war picture . . . Kirk Douglas has never been better” (Time Out NY). (87 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1956). Sterling Hayden heads up a phenomenal cast of B players plotting a racetrack holdup in Kubrick's high-voltage thriller. “Not to be missed” (Chicago Reader). (84 mins)

Stephen Silha, Eric Slade, Dawn Logsdon (US, 2013). Dawn Logsdon in person. Introduced by Antonella Bonfanti. This loving and vibrant portrait of James Broughton (1913–1999), the legendary Bay Area poet, filmmaker, and teacher, intermixes archival footage and interviews with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, George Kuchar, and more. (83 mins)

Mark Kitchell (US, 1990). Mark Kitchell in person. Special guests FSM activists Linda Artel, Susan Druding, and Lynne Hollander Savio. More than a primer for a tumultuous decade, Kitchell's documentary is an astute distillation of an audacious effort to reinvent the terms of citizenship, and a window into the history of Berkeley and the antiwar movement. (117 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (UK, 1968). Digital Restoration! Godard follows the Rolling Stones as they work on a new album, intercutting those scenes with footage of the Black Panthers, Maoist hippies, and scenes of urban unrest. “A rock film with the immediacy of reportage from a war zone” (Guardian). (111 mins)

Nicholas Ray (US, 1955). 4K Digital Restoration! James Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence. (111 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1960). Buff Kirk Douglas rides his chariot from slavery to freedom in Kubrick's remarkable epic. Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, and Charles Laughton add some thespian flair to this sword-and-sandals blockbuster. (197 mins)

Yasha Aginsky (US, 2014). John Cohen in person. Special guest Alexia Smith. Banjo Tales follows the legendary Mike Seeger (New Lost City Ramblers) as he travels through Appalachia in search of traditional banjo players. Followed by John Cohen's 1976 Musical Holdouts, which traces American traditional music from the Appalachias to the Cheyenne plains. (104 mins)

James Broughton (US, 1948–81). Introduced by Janis Crystal Lipzin. Tonight's program begins with a self-portrait of Broughton and features work from throughout his long, joy-filled career. Films include Mother's Day (“one of the great films in film history” (Peter Kubelka)), Together, This Is It, The Bed, and The Gardener of Eden. (65 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin (France, 1972). Introduced by Erik Ulman. Jane Fonda and Yves Montand star as unlikely leaders of a labor uprising. “The peak of Godard and Gorin's partnership, inspired by Jerry Lewis in general and The Ladies Man in particular” (Lincoln Center). (95 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1962). James Mason falls for a rather underage girl in Kubrick's delightful adaptation of the notorious Nabokov novella. Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters add their own scene-stealing peculiarities to this pitch-black, comical retelling. (152 mins)

George Stevens (US, 1956). 4K Digital Restoration! James Dean burns through the wide Texas plains in this searing Western-style soap opera also starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Dennis Hopper. A wealthy rancher brings his new wife back home to Texas, where she encounters the land's violence and racism-and a virile cowboy (Dean). (201 mins)

D.A. Pennebaker (US, 1971). Introduced by Tom Luddy. Images of Godard shooting in the US intercut with remnants of his abandoned American movie. "The footage that Pennebaker put together is wondrous" (New Yorker); it includes appearances by Rip Torn, Tom Hayden, Eldridge Cleaver, Jefferson Airplane, and Godard himself. (90 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin (France, 1972). A deconstruction of a notorious news photograph of Jane Fonda surrounded by Vietnamese communists in Hanoi. Followed by Godard in America (Ralph Thanhauser, 1970), which tracks Godard and Gorin as they visit American campuses. (96 mins)

San Francisco Newsreel (US, 1968–69). Special guest Bill Nichols. Hit the streets and fight the power with three incendiary documentaries from one of the nation's most radical filmmaking collectives. Off the Pig with Oakland's Black Panthers, follow San Francisco State on Strike, and see a different side of People's Park. (72 mins)

Jean-Pierre Gorin in person. In 1967 Gorin and Jean-Luc Godard launched the Dziga Vertov Group, a politically radical, experimental film collective that forged a new practice of filmmaking-and film viewing. (90 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin (France, 1976). Jean-Pierre Gorin in person. Godard, Gorin, and Anne-Marie Miéville's radical film, begun in 1970 as a documentary on the Palestinian struggle but completed in 1974 as a much more complex exploration of the ideological barriers between "here" and "elsewhere." (60 mins)

Eldar Shengelaia (USSR, 1984). Digital Restoration! Eldar Shengelaia in person. Part Jacques Tati, part Ermanno Olmi, this inspired satire by one of Georgia's leading directors is a charming and disarming critique of bureaucracy. (97 mins)

Nikoloz Shengelaia (USSR, 1932). Imported Print! Eldar Shengelaia in Person. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Set against a backdrop of oil derricks and sand dunes, this impressive silent-era feature about the geopolitical struggle for the control of oil fields is still relevant today. Preceded by Work at Oil Derricks and Oil Extraction, a fascinating 1907 look at Baku. (77 mins)

Eldar Shengelaia, Tamaz Meliava (USSR, 1963). Imported Print! Eldar Shengelaia in person. Shephards battle the elements and manmade temptations in this strikingly shot Georgian work, an entry into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. (97 mins)

Tengiz Abuladze (USSR, 1984/1987). Imported 35mm Print! Nana Janelidze in person. One of the first Russian films to deal with the terrors of the Stalin era, Repentance combines symbolism and surrealism for this look at a paranoid dictator. “Mordantly funny . . . as artful as it is sobering” (NY Times). (153 mins)

BAM/PFA Senior Film Curator Susan Oxtoby provides a brief introduction to this five-week film course. Nana Janelidze, director of the Georgian National Film Center, then talks about her role in preserving an early treasure of Georgian national cinema, Journey of Akaki Tsereteli to Racha and Lechkhumi (1912), which depicts the legendary poet Akaki Tsereteli's journey to the mountainous areas of Western Georgia.

Eldar Shengelaia (USSR, 1968). Eldar Shengelaia in person. A sculptor aspires to a life of creativity, but finds reality-in the form of conformity, bureaucracy, and compromise-far more difficult. A tragicomedy of daily proportions, and one of Georgian cinema's best-received works. (96 mins)

Nana Janelidze (Georgia, 2011). Bay Area Premiere! Nana Janelidze in person. Part historical essay, part re-created biography this film uses the tragic circumstances of the twentieth century as a backdrop for the chronicle of a Georgian family. Preceded by Janelidze's The Family. (80 mins)