Heather Rae (US, 2005). The life and times of the Native American activist and spoken-word performer John Trudell are spotlighted in this inspiring documentary from Heather Rae. Includes interviews with Robert Redford, Jackson Browne, Kris Kristofferson, and others. (80 mins)

Levan Koguashvili (Georgia/US, 2009) Bay Area Premiere! Levan Koguashvili in person. This eye-opening, compelling documentary sheds light on the hardships experienced by Georgian women in America. Followed by Street Days, a powerful character study of a drug addict struggling to survive in Tbilisi. (143 mins)

Levan Koguashvili (Georgia, 2013). Levan Koguashvili in person. A forty-something bachelor seeks true love, even if he is still living at home with his parents, in this whimsical Georgian love story. (95 mins)

(US, 2011–14). Mary Helena Clark, Linda Scobie, Karly Stark in person. Learn how to project 16mm film, see what film frames end up on Craig Baldwin's cutting room floor, and more in tonight's program of recent experimental films. Includes work by Vincent Grenier, Andrew Lampert, Tomonari Nishikawa, Adele Horne, and local artists Linda Scobie, Karly Stark, and Mary Helena Clark. (75 mins)

Mikheil Chiaureli (USSR, 1931). Imported Print! Introduced by Nikolay Mikhailovich Borodachev and Peter Bagrov. Judith Rosenberg on piano. Set in Tbilisi, Khabarda is a satire that plays on the tension between petit bourgeois values and the incoming sweep of Communist ideology. Another rare, rediscovered find from the archives of Gosfilmofond. (64 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (1985). Godard's send-up of and tribute to film noir follows a dozen or so characters as they wander about a Parisian hotel, looking for mysteries, love, and money. With Johnny Hallyday and Jean-Pierre Léaud. (95 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan, 1996). A band of “gangsters” move from one luckless scheme to another in the south of Taiwan in Hou's take on the gangster film, which replaces gun battles and violence with the quiet moments in between. “A fascinating window onto modern Taiwan” (Berenice Reynaud). (112 mins)

Mikhail Kalatozov (USSR, 1930). Judith Rosenberg on piano. A snowbound, rock-hewn village in the harsh Caucasus is the setting for his bracing, rhythmically cut early masterpiece from the director of I Am Cuba. Nature, politics, and cinema combine in this salute to “the dynamic sublime.” (66 mins)

Mikhail Kalatozov (USSR, 1930/1932). Imported Print! Judith Rosenberg on piano. The saying “For want of a nail, a war was lost” is brought to dynamic, stirring life in this rapid-fire look at the Red Army. Another early masterpiece from the director of I Am Cuba. Followed by Patrick Cazal's documentary on the director, Hurricane Kalatozov (2010). (128 mins)