Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1956). Archival print! An A-bomb-building physicist hides out from the nuclear age in a seaside town. Mistaken for a tramp, he's soon accepted as one of the townsfolk's own in this quirky, Pagnol-by-way-of-Spain comedy. (93 mins)

Introduced by Stefan Drössler. This presentation of Schroeter rarities, digitally preserved by the Munich Filmmuseum, features examples of his early experimental work, including his first 16mm film, Aggression, and Johannas Traum, which draws on unused footage of Candy Darling and Ingrid Caven in Schroeter's film The Death of Maria Malibran. (95 mins)

Errol Morris (U.S., 2011). Introduced by Linda Williams. Seeking to understand the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs, Errol Morris looks outside the frame. “As a human document of what people are capable of in wartime, it's indispensable” (Christian Science Monitor). (117 mins)

Woody Allen (U.S., 1979). Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Woody Allen's visual love poem to the city of his heart. With Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta. (107 mins)

Jean Rouch (France/Niger/Ghana, 1955–67). A "bandit" tax collector, a cattle herder, and a fisherman migrate south from Niger to find their fortunes in Ghana in what Rouch described as “a postcard in the service of the imaginary." With Rouch's best-known film, Les maîtres fous. (116 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1961). Archival print! A charity campaign suggests “Sit a Poor Person at Your Table” in Berlanga's frantic, gag-riddled romp. Filled with hilarious barbs, impious prattle, and high society comeuppance, you'll revel in a surplus of black humor. (85 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1956). Hitchcock adopts the semidocumentary fashion of film noir to spin off the frightening possibilities when an innocent man, New York jazz player Manny (Henry Fonda), is named as the guilty party in a holdup. (105 mins)

Jacques Deray (France, 1973). In Jacques Deray's masterpiece, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a hit man dispatched from Paris to Los Angeles to assassinate the local mob boss, but his employers have set him up to be hit by “inside man” Roy Scheider. Also starring Angie Dickinson. (110 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1964). Archival print! An official executioner must appoint a successor who, if luck has it, will also marry his desirable daughter. Berlanga's masterpiece is a dark comedy backlit by the knowledge that in Franco's regime execution was the penalty of choice. (88 mins)

Werner Schroeter (West Germany/Portugal, 1986). Magdalena Montezuma (in her last film) stars as the regal mother of a “rose king” in love with a muscular youth, in this florid tribute to silent-film melodrama, by way of Jack Smith, Jean Genet, and Maria Callas. “One of the high points of eighties world cinema” (Film Comment). (106 mins)