Jean Renoir (France, 1934). Imported 35mm prints! Two Renoir classics: in Toni, an immigrant Spanish farmworker is involved with two women, one who loves him, one whom he loves. “What is striking about Toni is its dreamlike quality” (François Truffaut). Followed by A Day in the Country, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. (127 mins)

Alison Klayman (U.S./China, 2012). Introduced by Jeff Kelley. The director of this first feature-length film about the internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist gained unprecedented access to the artist, documenting his working method, political activism, personal life, and rise to stardom. “One of the most engagingly powerful movies of the year" (Boston Globe). (91 mins)

Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1977). Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and author Christopher Pavsek in conversation. A Cape Canaveral–obsessed Filipino slowly awakens from his “cocoon of Americanized dreams” in Tahimik's pioneering, proudly indigenous, cheerfully ramshackle essay film. “Makes one forget months of dreary movie-going, for it reminds one that invention, insolence, enchantment, even innocence, are still available to film” (Susan Sontag). (93 mins)

John Greyson (Canada, 2009). John Greyson in person. Introduced by Damon Young. Legendary Canadian videomaker and activist John Greyson's latest feature, narrated by an albino squirrel and riffing off a Gertrude Stein classic, is a genre-bending, jaw-dropping “doc-op” centered on two early AIDS activists. (104 mins)

Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1980–94). Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and author Christopher Pavsek in conversation. Tahimik's virtually unknown masterpiece chronicles Tahimik and his young son's lives as they traverse the tumultuous 1980s and early 1990s in the Philippines-a great democratic revolution deposes a dictator; a massive volcanic eruption covers the world in ash-and asks how one might build a new and better future out of the disasters. (174 mins)

Chris Marker (France, 1977/2001). In analyzing history circa 1968, “Chris Marker has a genius for poetic aphorism and the documentary equivalent of the bon mot” (Village Voice). (180 mins, plus intermission)

Jean Renoir (France, 1939). Made just before the outbreak of WWII, Jean Renoir's masterpiece of ruthless grace uses a gathering in a country house as setting for a tragicomic study of polite society on the brink of collapse. Named fourth best film of all time in a 2012 Sight and Sound Poll. (106 mins)

Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1983). Kidlat Tahimik in person. A Philippine village switches from making small-market handicrafts to international Olympics memorabilia in Tahimik's warm-hearted yet ultimately devastating parable on the global economy, as essential as during its 1983 debut. Both a witty, almost Swiftian satire of the effects of globalization, and a documentary-like portrait of Philippine rural life. (95 mins)