Satyajit Ray (India, 1962). 35mm Restored Print! The great Bollywood superstar Waheeda Rehman stars in one of Ray's most atypical films, a commercially successful noir melodrama filled with taxi drivers, drug smugglers, and prostitutes that became the director's most popular film in his native Bengal. (150 mins)

A glimpse of Godard in the process of becoming “Godard.” This program of Godard's first shorts includes Opération béton, All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Une histoire d'eau, and Charlotte et son Jules. (89 mins)

Sylvain George (France, 2010). Filmed over three years, “a fiercely unsettling mood and vivid handmade cinema girds” (Variety) this portrait of undocumented immigrants from Northern Africa and the Middle East, now living in makeshift homes in the northern French port town of Calais. (154 mins)

Douglas Sirk (U.S., 1956). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray rekindle an old flame in Douglas Sirk's wonderful, melancholy melodrama that "demolishes the social fantasy of the 'happy home'” (Time Out). (84 mins)

David Tosh Gitonga (Kenya, 2012). An aspiring young actor from the Kenyan backwaters heads to Nairobi to make it big, but soon discovers why the city is nicknamed “Nairobbery.” Created through Tom Twyker's production initiative, this “affecting, funny narrative” (Variety) is Kenya's first-ever Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film. (96 mins)

Satyajit Ray (India, 1961). Two essential Ray documentaries on his greatest influences: Rabindranath Tagore, on the Nobel Prize–winning poet and painter, and Sukumar Ray, on the director's father, a writer and critic. (84 mins)

Anthony Mann (U.S., 1950). In this downbeat drama with Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell, the narrator declares, “This is the story of Joe Norson. No hero, no criminal-just human like all of us.” Human, yes, but dwelling amidst the cold concrete of NYC. (82 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1964). A married woman splits her time between her aviator hubby and a preening actor in one of Godard's first film-essays, a study of “woman reduced to object by the pressures of modern life, incapable of being herself" (Godard). (94 mins)

Kamran Shirdel (Iran, 1965–80). Kamran Shirdel in conversation with Hamid Naficy. We are honored to host Shirdel during his first visit to the U.S., and to present four of his remarkable short films known as “The Four Blacks,” which influenced a generation of contemporary Iranian filmmakers. (83 mins)

Billy Wilder (U.S., 1960). Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Art Direction. “An American classic”(NY Times).