Jean Rouch (France/Ivory Coast, 1958). In this playful yet enlightening portrait of the immigrant experience, Rouch enlists a modern-day griot who narrates his and his friends' everyday experiences in the Ivory Coast during the last period of French colonialism. With experimental short narrative Gare du Nord. (88 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1944). Imported 35mm print! Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix are among the characters adrift on a lifeboat in the Atlantic during World War II in Hitchcock's controversial wartime film, “a microcosm of the war” for the director. With short Bon Voyage. (122 mins)

Leandro Katz (U.S., 1972–2001). Leandro Katz in person. Argentine artist Leandro Katz presents a selection of his stunning short films from two research projects centered on significant moments in Latin American history, from the United Fruit Company to Che Guevara. (84 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1958). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak's beauty in Hitchcock's sinister ode to voyeurism, death, and amorous fixation. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1971). Schroeter sets Oscar Wilde's notorious play about the female temptress amid ancient Roman ruins in Lebanon, complete with eye-catchingly bizarre costumes and a music track culled from Arabic folk songs, Verdi, and Wagner. Pasolini combined with high opera and paganism: “sublimely severe” (Chuck Stephens, Film Comment). With early theatrical featurette Neurasia (1969). (122 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1958). IB Tech print! Introduction by film scholar Doug Cunningham. Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak's beauty in Hitchcock's sinister ode to voyeurism, death, and amorous fixation. Voted best film of all time in 2012 Sight and Sound poll. “Perhaps the finest film starring San Francisco” (San Francisco Chronicle). (128 mins)

Debbie Lum (U.S., 2012). Debbie Lum in person. An aging white man with “yellow fever,” finds a young Chinese bride named Sandy through the Internet, but they soon discover that their dreams of perfect love do not match bitter reality. An honest, intimate documentary about culture, love, and the immigrant experience. (84 mins)

Ernesto Foronda/Silas Howard (U.S., 2012). Ernesto Foronda in person. Two ex-lovers reluctantly reunite to retrieve a lost cooler in this electric ramble across nocturnal Los Angeles, starring Monique Gabriela Curnen (Finishing the Game; The Dark Knight) and Sung Kang (Fast and Furious; The Motel). (87 mins)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand, 2012). Jennifer Phang in person. The Cannes-winning director of Tropical Malady returns with another mystical, magical blend of documentary, narrative and fable, set in the crumbling Mekong Hotel near the Thai/Laos border. With Jennifer Phang's new short, Advantageous. (84 mins)

Benito Bautista (U.S., 2012). Benito Bautista, Florante Aguilar, Emma Francisco in person. In this award-winning feature documentary, director Benito Bautista and guitarist Florante Aguilar bring to light the long-abandoned Philippine art of harana (serenade). Three of the tradition's last surviving practitioners perform songs never before captured on film. (103 mins)

Zhang Yuan (China, 2012). In the latest film from controversial filmmaker Zhang Yuan (Beijing Bastards), the displaced youth of Beijing may be down and out, but they find solace in a makeshift family-one another. With short Shanghai Strangers, directed by Joan Chen. (120 mins)