Agnès Varda (France/U.S., 1958–68). Restored Prints! Agnès Varda in person. In the late 1960s Varda visited and lived in the Bay Area for a time; two of her films, the Sausalito houseboat-set Uncle Yanco and Black Panthers, filmed in the Oakland streets, capture the era. The Paris-set L'opéra-Mouffe also screens. (69 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 2000). Agnès Varda and Linda Williams in conversation. Varda's rumination on the art of “living off the leftovers of others” visits food scavengers and cultural rebels, and finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and urban, the political and the highly personal. “Beautiful, absorbing, and touching…a mind-bending experience not to be missed” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader). (82 mins)

Peter Hutton (U.S., 1990–97). Introduced by Federico Windhausen. Hutton's meditative, silent portraits of place “offer lessons in the art of seeing and fashioning images that make you wonder how anyone could produce something simultaneously so humble and so astounding." (Tom Gunning). (61 mins)

John Hanson, Rob Nilsson (U.S., 1978). West Coast Premiere of Restored 35mm Print! Introduced by Rob Nilsson. Actress Susan Lynch in person. A prequel of sorts to The Grapes of Wrath, Northern Lights is a stunning, gritty re-creation of Midwestern agrarian life circa 1915, backlit by the rise of the Nonpartisan League, a short-lived grassroots political movement. (93 mins)

Wu Yonggang (China, 1934). Imported Print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Ruan Lingyu delivers one of her most luminous performances as a mother forced into prostitution in this classic of the Golden Age of Shanghai cinema. Could make even jaded denizens of pre-Code Hollywood blush. (82 mins)

Agnès Varda (France, 1954). New 35mm print! Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Varda's 1954 debut about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague.” (90 mins)

Cai Chusheng (China, 1935). Imported Print! A strong-willed teacher and writer (Ruan Lingyu) is driven to despair by gossip and lecherous men in this intriguing, hard-hitting melodrama given further power by Ruan's own post-filming suicide. (104 mins)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Germany, 1976). "Fassbinder doesn't make 'comedies' . . . he makes ironies, and he's never been more brilliantly ironic than in this examination of a sadistic anti-hero," played by Kurt Raab (Soho Weekly News). (113 mins)