Jean Rouch (Netherlands/France/Niger, 1993). Archival Print! This act of collaborative mythmaking follows three African friends (the heroes of both Jaguar and Little by Little) on a rollercoaster ride from drought-stricken Niger to inundated Holland and back again. With Mozambique short Makwayela. (128 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain/France, 1973). Archival print! Michel Piccoli is a Parisian oral surgeon with a new lover: a life-size sex doll from Japan. By turns rapturously absurd and innocently obscene, Tamaño natural is really about the demure dentist's estrangement from things human and fleshy. (101 mins)

Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin (France, 1960–61). This landmark documentary influenced the French New Wave, and much of documentary filmmaking. Rouch asks passing Parisians, “Are you happy?” with fascinating results. With a short portrait of Rouch, Une brève histoire de cinema. (107 mins)

Djibril Diop-Mambéty (Senegal, 1973). Imported 35mm restored print! Lecture by Marilyn Fabe. Two youths cruise the streets of Dakar on a motorbike, looking for adventure and scams, in this African Easy Rider, awash with the raw energy of urban Senegal and global psychedelic youth culture. “Surreal, richly sumptuous, quite extraordinary” (Telegraph UK). (88 mins)

Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1978). Archival print! An oily manufacturer sponsors a hunt on the estate of a nobleman who has fallen on hard times. Berlanga's madcap Escopeta (Shotgun) stays on target with a load of high-impact and hilarious shot. (95 mins)

Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy, 1970). Jean-Louis Trintignant is a suave intellectual who has risen through the ranks of Mussolini's fascist government, a conformist who now faces his ultimate orders: to assassinate his former mentor, an antifascist professor. “A great film, drunkenly beautiful and deeply disturbing” (David Thomson). (116 mins)

Krzysztof Kieślowski (Switzerland/France/Poland, 1994). Imported 35mm Print! A chance encounter brings together two solitary individuals-a model (Irène Jacob) and a retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant)-in Kieslowski's meditation on the need for "fraternity." (99 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1940). An apolitical reporter (Joel McCrea) in Europe during World War II gets drawn into an international espionage plot in Hitchcock's quick-moving wartime entertainment, “the best spy thriller of all time” (American Cinematographer). None other than Josef Goebbels called it “a masterpiece of propaganda.” (120 mins)

Leonard Retel Helmrich (The Netherlands/Indonesia, 2010). Leonard Retel Helmrich and Daniel L. Miller in Conversation. Three generations of a Jakarta family face an uneasy present and an uncertain future in this riveting documentary on globalization, religion, and family aspirations in contemporary Southeast Asia. (111 mins)

Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1960). Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and a hotel shower star in Hitchcock's legendary, groundbreaking thriller. One of the most influential horror films ever made. Score by Bernard Herrmann and title design by Saul Bass. (109 mins)