Tengiz Abuladze (USSR, 1984/1987). Imported 35mm Print! Nana Janelidze in person. One of the first Russian films to deal with the terrors of the Stalin era, Repentance combines symbolism and surrealism for this look at a paranoid dictator. “Mordantly funny . . . as artful as it is sobering” (NY Times). (153 mins)

BAM/PFA Senior Film Curator Susan Oxtoby provides a brief introduction to this five-week film course. Nana Janelidze, director of the Georgian National Film Center, then talks about her role in preserving an early treasure of Georgian national cinema, Journey of Akaki Tsereteli to Racha and Lechkhumi (1912), which depicts the legendary poet Akaki Tsereteli's journey to the mountainous areas of Western Georgia.

Eldar Shengelaia (USSR, 1968). Eldar Shengelaia in person. A sculptor aspires to a life of creativity, but finds reality-in the form of conformity, bureaucracy, and compromise-far more difficult. A tragicomedy of daily proportions, and one of Georgian cinema's best-received works. (96 mins)

Nana Janelidze (Georgia, 2011). Bay Area Premiere! Nana Janelidze in person. Part historical essay, part re-created biography this film uses the tragic circumstances of the twentieth century as a backdrop for the chronicle of a Georgian family. Preceded by Janelidze's The Family. (80 mins)

Andy Warhol (US, 1965), Barbara Rubin (US, 1963). The first of two special programs exploring “expanded cinema.” Warhol combines experimental technology and multiscreen structure with traditional portrait sitting in Outer and Inner Space, while Rubin's hypnotic side-by-side projection Christmas on Earth depicts sexual tableaux vivants. (62 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville (France, 1975). New 35mm Print! Capitalism and sex, played out almost entirely in images of images. The first masterpiece of Godard's post-Maoist period, uses video to suggest social isolation yet is simultaneously visually entrancing. (88 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1968). Kubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. (160 mins)

Tim Burton (US, 1985). Recommended for ages 7 & up. Tim Burton's first feature film follows the squeaky-mad Pee-wee Herman as he rides roughshod over eighties conformity in search of his stolen bike. “Revels in the weird, the unpredictable, the infantile, and the absurd” (Empire). (90 mins)

Ivan Perestiani (USSR, 1923). Judith Rosenberg on piano. Three daredevils volunteer as scouts in the Red Cavalry-and encounter famed anarchist Nestor Makhno-in Perestiani's entertaining silent film, which borrows from the American adventure styles of Douglas Fairbanks. (100 mins)

Stanley Kubrick (US, 1964). 4K Restoration! Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, and Peter Sellers (again) star in Kubrick's scathing satire on the nuclear age. Cold War camp, here brought to life in a luminous 4K restoration. (94 mins)