Satyajit Ray (India, 1965). Restored Print! A sharp-witted, serious young journalist finds herself stuck on a train with a movie star in Ray's surprising examination of “intellectual” and “popular” cultures. (122 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1965). Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in Godard's audacious take on the lovers-on-the-run genre, lensed in ravishing color by Raoul Coutard. (110 mins)

An insider's view into how we shape our film and video collection, followed by a reception with the curators.

Ellen Spiro, Phil Donahue (U.S., 2007). Ellen Spiro in person. This intimate observational film follows a paralyzed Iraq War veteran's struggle and evolution into an articulate, outspoken critic of the war. “Superb documentary . . . almost unbearably moving” (Richard Corliss, Time Magazine). (87 mins)

Vittorio De Sica (Italy, 1952). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. De Sica's “simple, almost Chaplinesque story of a man fighting to preserve his dignity is even more moving for its firm grasp of everyday activities. . . . A truly great film” (Chicago Reader). (89 mins)

Melvin Van Peebles (U.S., 1970). Few blaxploitation films are as direct-or as hilarious-as this satire of a white businessman who wakes up black. The great comic Godfrey Cambridge stars. (97 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1966). In glowing color and 'Scope, Godard's last film with Anna Karina is “beautiful, goofy, and explosive . . . Godard's ultimate statement about his love/hatred for the aesthetics/politics of American movies/life ” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). (90 mins)

Meera Menon (U.S., 2013). Farah Mahtab's sex life is a litany of awkward encounters, and this twentysomething is eager to shake the unwanted moniker of “virgin.” Will a cross-country roadtrip with her best friends to stump for presidential nominee John Kerry provide the sweet release she craves? A raunchy, feminist reexamination of the road trip genre. (93 mins)

Banjong Pisanthanakun (Thailand, 2013). Ace physical comedy and bone-chilling scares collide in Shutter co-director Banjong Pisanthanakun's hilarious send-up of one of Thailand's most enduring and widely filmed ghost stories, the story of Mae Nak Phra Khanong. Pee Mak decimated Thailand's domestic box office in 2013 to become the country's biggest draw ever. (115 mins)

Rea Tajiri (U.S., 2013). Asking what it means to own land, the acclaimed director of History and Memory (SFIAAFF '91) harnesses unusual stories buried within the everyday-powerful floods, ancestral secrets, and colonial violence-to expose traces of a town's history. Her cinematic probing compels us to ponder our relationship to place. (65 mins)

Anthony Chen (Singapore, 2013). Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes, this riveting quasi-autobiographical first feature is against the backdrop of the 1990s Asian financial crisis. The film slowly reveals a family on the brink, watching desperately as self-control slips from their grip.(99 mins)

D. J. Holloway, Sun Kim (U.S., 2013). In this taut and impeccably filmed thriller set against the backdrop of L.A.'s Koreatown, James Park (Jun-seong Kim) navigates the city's dark and gritty underbelly to find his abducted son A bold morality play where deception, control, and revenge reign supreme. (100 mins)