Billy Wilder (US, 1954). Audrey Hepburn is the simple daughter of a family chauffeur who is transformed into a delectable sophisticate, and must choose between ne'er do well playboy William Holden and sober workaholic Humphrey Bogart, in Wilder's classic romance. One of Audrey's most iconic roles. (113 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (Switzerland/France, 2001). Lecture by James Roy MacBean follows screening. Godard's investigation of memory, loss, Hollywood, and the Holocaust was considered one of the director's most accessible, intriguing works from his later period. "This film is a pinnacle in a career marked by many Everests” (Piers Handling). (97 mins)

Robert Flaherty (US, 1922). Flaherty's saga of Inuit life remains one of the most beautiful films ever made. Directing a group of Inuit to enact their daily activities for his camera, he paved the way for the development of the film documentary. (85 mins)

(Cameroon/Kenya/Tunisia, 2013–14). A program highlighting emerging artists focuses on short narratives by women. Films include Beleh, Eka Christa Assam's quirky look at gender roles; Soko Sonko, a hair braiding adventure by Ekwa Msangi-Omari; and Kaouther Ben Hania's story of a young girl who goes to great lengths to avoid school, Wooden Hands. (75 mins)

Otar Iosseliani (USSR, 1975). In this exquisite film by Georgian director Otar Iosseliani, a string quartet's visit to a small village is treated with the gentle satire usually associated with the Czech New Wave. “Iosseliani is (Georgia's) greatest director” (Tom Luddy). (94 mins)

Judy Kibinge (Kenya/Germany, 2013). A woman whose world has been destroyed in Kenya's 2007 civil unrest attempts to rebuild her life, yet repeatedly crosses paths with a man who participated in the violence, in Judy Kibinge's moving, beautifully filmed narrative. (85 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1945). A failed writer (Ray Milland) turns to alcohol over one long, lost weekend in Wilder's powerful tale of the wrong, trembling end of the American dream. Jane Wyman costars. Winner of four Academy Awards. (101 mins)

Lana Gogoberidze (USSR, 1977). Imported Print! Lana Gogoberidze in person. A bold mixture of documentary and social-psychological drama-and the first film to make mention of Stalin's camps-Some Interviews on Personal Matters makes powerful statements about women, work, family, and marriage that earned it international acclaim as the first feminist film of Soviet cinema. (95 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1988–98). Godard mourns the death of cinema and chronicles its vitality in these elliptical, epigrammatic montage essays. “Perhaps the greatest capstone of (Godard's) career . . . sure to be one of his most enduring legacies” (David Sterritt). Continues on Sunday / 2.1.15. (148 mins)