Rezo Chkheidze (USSR, 1956). The picaresque village comedy is updated for Georgia's postwar urban realities in Rezo Chkheidze's lyrical tale of life, love, and collective labor inside a chaotic Tbilisi apartment block. Stars future filmmaker Giorgi Shengelaia. (89 mins)

Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan, 1987). A young woman and her brother float along the periphery of the Taipei underworld in Hou's intriguing blend of gangster tale and mood-drenched drama, a fascinating and little-seen forerunner to his Millennium Mambo and Goodbye South, Goodbye. (93 mins)

Pawel Wojtasik (US, 2008–14). Pawel Wojtasik in person. Polish artist Pawel Wojtasik's beautiful and disconcerting films include depictions of an autopsy, a recycling plant, a woman's body, and workers in Varanasi, India, all in sensual detail. (75 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1989). Free screening. A family lives through Taiwan's independence from Japan, and later political crackdown. Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung stars in “one of the supreme masterworks of contemporary cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). (158 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1993). Free screening. Introduction and booksigning by Richard Suchenski. Suchenski and Guo-Juin Hong in conversation. Hou's film about the puppeteer Li Tien-lu is "epic in scope but personal in outlook, astonishingly rich in atmosphere but as unforced as the passing moment" (Kent Jones). (142 mins)

Cyclical minimalist rhythms and extended classical harmonies from founder of Quest Coast Quarterly.

Jean-Luc Godard (France, France/Switzerland, 1983). (Prénom Carmen). Anne-Marie Miéville and Godard's Bizet adaptation captures “the spirit of erotic feverishness . . . A violent lunge at the carnal mysteries” (David Denby). (85 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1995). New 35mm print! Introduced by Richard Suchenski. Hou views Cold War repression in Taiwan through a present-day scrim. "A rigorous work of art whose mysteries are worth unraveling" (Caryn James). (108 mins)