Clemente Bicocchi (U.S./Republic of Congo/Italy, 2011). The story, told with archival materials and animation, of Italian-born Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà, who explored Central Africa beginning in the 1870s, erupts into the present. “A family story with operatic twists and turns” (New York Daily News). With the haunting short Tomo (Bakary Diallo, Mali, 2012). (93 mins)

Gianfranco Parolini (Italy/Spain, 1969). Spaghetti Western stalwart Lee Van Cleef glares his way across a town of “upstanding citizens”-and takes them all on-in this brutal Western. A character's concealed “banjo gun” was later lifted by El Mariachi. (107 mins)

Jane Murago Munene (Kenya, 2011). Monica Wangu Wamwere, the mother of a detained human rights activist, and her unceasing search for justice in Kenya are movingly detailed in this spirited documentary portrait. With an animated short about a Nigerian asylum seeker, Lack of Evidence (Hayoun Kwon, France, 2011). (80 mins)

Fritz Lang (Germany, 1926). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Set in the year 2026, Lang's futuristic super-production is an anxiety dream of urban dystopia expressed as science fiction. (124 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1959). Hitchcock dubbed this exhilarating comedy-thriller “my final word on the chase film.” Cary Grant is your basic grey-flannel-suited adman, until he is mistaken by the police for an assassin and by an international spy ring for a double agent. (136 mins)

Stan Lai (Taiwan, 1992). Stan Lai in person. Introduced by Sophie Volpp. Playwright/director Stan Lai adopted his own theater piece Secret Love for the Peach Blossom Spring to the screen for this delightful tale of two acting groups double-booked for a rehearsal space. Starring Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, with cinematography by Christopher Doyle. (105 mins)

Pat Collins (Ireland, 2012). West Coast Premiere! Introduced by Bernie Krause. An Irish sound recordist returns to the landscape of his childhood in search of a pristine sonic setting in this brooding stew of stunning tableaux and documentary-like encounters with the people of the rugged North. (84 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1941). Joan Fontaine is a shy, sensitive lass who marries a dashing gambler (Cary Grant), but begins to fear that he's a murderer, in Hitchcock's devilish thriller. “A supreme example of Grant's ability to be simultaneously charming and sinister, and of Hitchcock's skill with neat expressionistic touches” (Time Out). (99 mins)

(U.S., 2011–12). Student filmmakers in person. The annual Screenagers Film Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is dedicated to showcasing new works by Bay Area high school students, selected by a team of high school curators. These powerful, beautifully crafted films are products of the imaginative minds of young artists that reside in the Bay Area. (90 mins)

André Sauvage (France, 1928) Imported Print! Introduced by Patrick Ellis. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Part inventory, part cartography, Études sur Paris is a city-symphonic Baedeker of Paris, as interested in the monumental as the derelict. With Boris Kaufman's short, Les Halles centrales. (105 mins)

Charlie Vundla (South Africa, 2011). This stylish updating of the crime drama genre, set in the “jungle” of Johannesburg, tracks an ex-con suckered into one last heist, with inevitable results. “A slow-burn heist movie that resonates with strong performances and classic noir ambience” (Seattle Film Festival). (89 mins)