Taghreed Elsanhouri (Sudan, 2011). The complex history of Sudan, from its establishment in 1956 to its partition in 2011, is detailed through interviews, rare archival footage, and the personal experiences of one mixed-race family. “An eye-opening account of an issue that hasn't received nearly enough international attention”(Rolling Stone). With short Farewell Exile (Lamia Alami, Morocco, 2011). (107 mins)

Guetty Felin (Haiti/France/U.S., 2012). Guetty Felin in person. Broken Stones observes everyday life as it resumes after the Haitian earthquake of 2010, amid the ruins of the once beautiful and grand cathedral, affectionately called Notre Dame de Port-au-Prince. Preceded by Africa Shafted: Under One Roof, a portrait of the residents of Johannesburg's tallest building (Ingrid Martens, South Africa, 2011). (117 mins)

See African Film Festival 2013

Alfred E. Green (U.S., 1933). Restored Print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Stanwyck sleeps her way to the top in this notorious pre-Code melodrama set in Manhattan. (76 mins)

Victor Sjöström (Sweden, 1917) Imported Print! Introduced by Mark Sandberg. Live music by The Town Quartet. Bruce Loeb on piano. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this adaptation of Ibsen's nationalistic poem is distinguished by stunning land- and seascape photography. With the director's Hollywood epic The Wind, wherein naïve Virginia belle Lillian Gish relocates to windswept Texas. (136 mins)

(Tobenai chinmoku). Kazuo Kuroki (Japan, 1966). Introduced by Roland Domenig. This dazzling blend of documentary realism and poetic abstraction recreates a “butterfly's journey” (embodied by Mariko Kaga) across postwar Japan. “A film of sympathetic irrationality . . . fascinating in its strangeness”(Positif). (100 mins)

(Tenshi no kōkotsu). Koji Wakamatsu (Japan, 1972). Introduced by Go Hirasawa. An extreme-left militant group finds itself consumed by paranoia in Koji Wakamatsu's notorious cocktail of politics, porn, and protest, one of the most infamous films of the Japanese (or any) New Wave. Written by Masao Adachi. (89 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1942). In Hitchcock's wartime thriller, Robert Cummings is a factory worker framed for espionage, battling time and the law to uncover the real saboteur. The script, cowritten by Dorothy Parker, keeps things moving from coast to coast, and is considered a practice run for North by Northwest. (108 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1981). Schoeter's hymn to the place of art in life, and the wonder of a life of art, filmed during the 1980 Experimental Theater Festival of Nancy, France. “Less straight documentary than a personal, weirdly sweet vision of the human comedy” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). (90 mins)

(Kanojo to kare). Susumu Hani (Japan, 1963). Susumu Hani in person. Introduced by Roland Domenig. A housewife slowly becomes alienated from the world around her in Hani's elliptical masterpiece, compared on release to the best of Antonioni. Starring Sachiko Hidari and Eiji Okada (Hiroshima, Mon Amour). (111 mins). UPDATE: Mr. Hani regrets that he is unable to visit the Bay Area as planned.