Irakli Kvirikadze (USSR, 1984). An amusing and artfully crafted tale of three generations of long-distance swimmers, and the several decades of Georgian history their lives represent. Preceded by Kirikadze's The Jar (1971), which transposes Pirandello's story to rural Georgia. (134 mins)

Raoul Peck (France/Haiti/US/Belgium, 2013). Filmed over two years, Raoul Peck's powerful exposé examines the staggering failures, global and local, that have stranded a vulnerable nation in the wake of Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake. (100 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1994). The “first film of Godard's old age” finds the great artist turning the camera on himself. “An inebriating dialectical diary of words, sounds, images, and landscapes” (Variety). Preceded by Origins of the 21st Century (2000). (73 mins)

Julia Bacha (Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, 2009). With special guest Mujahid Sarsur. When a group of Palestinian villagers stands in front of bulldozers to save their olive trees from destruction, their actions initiate a new movement that unites Israelis and Palestinians in a nonviolent struggle in this up-close and inspiring documentary chronicle. (82 mins)

Hou Hsiao-hsien (Japan/Taiwan, 2003). Hou Hsiao-hsien pays tribute to Yasujiro Ozu in this meditative look at life and love in contemporary Tokyo, starring Tadanobu Asano. “The plot is spare, but the sounds, images, and ambience are indelible” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). (103 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (US/France, 1987). Introduced by Tom Luddy. “More Cocteau and Beckett than Shakespeare” (TIFF Cinematheque), Godard's take on King Lear features one of the most eclectic casts ever assembled: Woody Allen, Peter Sellars, Norman Mailer, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, and Godard himself. “A grand statement about the power of moviemaking ”(The New Yorker). (90 mins)

Mikheil Chiaureli (USSR, 1929). Judith Rosenberg on piano. This silent comic melodrama on the evils of alcohol was filmed on location in Tbilisi, and serves as a rare glimpse of that city circa 1929. (100 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (Switzerland/France, 1990). A rich businesswoman accidentally injures, then takes home, a hitchhiker (Alain Delon) in Godard's meditation on beauty, silence, and the inadequacy of language. "Jean-Luc Godard on love as the antidote to the bankruptcy of modern materialism” (Variety). (90 mins)