Giorgi Shengelaia (USSR, 1969). This poetic, visually stunning biography of the great Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz (Niko) Pirosmanishvili won the Grand Prize at the Chicago Film Festival. “A splendid and innovative work of poetic biography” (New Yorker). (85 mins)

Lynn Hershman Leeson (U.S., 2007). Lynn Hershman Leeson in person. Telling the strange tale of artist and alleged “bioterrorist” Steve Kurtz, Lynn Hershman Leeson deconstructs both documentary conventions and post-9/11 paranoia. (76 mins)

Craig Baldwin (US, 1991). Craig Baldwin in person. “This masterpiece is at once a sci-fi cheapster, a skewed history of US intervention in Latin America, a satire of conspiratorial thinking, and an essential piece of current Americana” (Village Voice). With Bruce Conner's A Movie (1958). (60 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1985). Out of his own childhood, Hou weaves a picture of a moment in time. "A spectacular triumph without anything of the 'spectacular' about it" (Derek Malcolm). (136 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1986). The story of a country boy's lost love, "a heartbreaking film of profound humanity, the high point of an enormously gifted director in mid-career" (Evans Chan). (110 mins)

Noutsa Gogoberidze (USSR, 1930) Imported Print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Long suppressed and nearly written out of film history, this exceptional documentary was an artistic collaboration between Georgia's first female director and the noted avant-garde painter David Kakabadze. With Felicità (2009), a deadpan, hilarious short on the work of women. (69 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France/Switzerland, 1982). Isabelle Huppert and Hanna Schygulla in Godard's visceral, visually enthralling film about a film called Passion, based on tableaux vivants of famous paintings. (87 mins)