Lana Gogoberidze (USSR, 1984). Imported Print! Lana Gogoberidze in person. The history of Georgia in the twentieth century is reimagined through the life and times of woman in Lana Gogoberidz's moving drama, which premiered at Cannes in 1984. (105 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)

Frederick Wiseman (US, 1967). Introduced by Linda Williams. Wiseman's stark but compassionate look at the horrific conditions of a state-run institution for the criminally insane, one of the first-ever looks at mental illness treatment in the US. “More immediate than fiction because these people are real; more savage than satire” (Roger Ebert). (87 mins)

Eric Baudelaire (France/Japan/Lebanon, 2011). Introduced by Apsara DiQuinzio. Eric Baudelaire and Joseph del Pesco in conversation. Revolution, exile, landscapes, and memory: the parallel tales of notorious Japanese New Wave filmmaker Masao Adachi, a scriptwriter for Oshima and radical leftist who joined the extreme Japanese Red Army in Beirut, and May Shigenobu, the daughter of the JRA's founder. With short, The Makes, an adaptation of an unmade Antonioni film. (92 mins)

Eric Baudelaire (France/Lebanon/Japan, 2013). Introduced by Joseph del Pesco. Eric Baudelaire and Apsara DiQuinzio in conversation. Masao Adachi narrates Baudelaire's fragmented tale of war-torn Beirut, built around the travails of two lovers and former resistance fighters. (101 mins)

Jean-Luc Godard (Switzerland/France, 1996). New Restoration! The specters of the Bosnian Wars haunt (and harm) Godard's European protagonists in his Pirandellian, pointedly obtuse look at the power and powerlessness of art and intellect to combat the horrors of war. (85 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1961). American businessman Jimmy Cagney has the cure for Occupied Berlin's ills (Coca Cola!) in Wilder's manic Cold War slapstick comedy, filmed in Berlin as the Wall went up. “Celebrates as it satirizes American cultural imperialism” (J. Hoberman). (108 mins)

Eric Baudelaire (Abkhazia, 2014). Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission Free. Shot in Abkhazia, where Baudelaire has been traveling intermittently since 2000, Letters to Max explores the fraught existence of a region caught between the polarizing, post-Soviet narratives of East and West. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 1 to 3 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 5 p.m. (103 mins)

Billy Wilder (US, 1943). Archival Print! Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, and a preening Erich Von Stroheim (as General Rommel!) star in Wilder's taut, fast-moving war film, set in the deserts of the North African front. “A crispy spy thriller” (Dave Kehr). (96 mins)

Kote Mikaberidze (USSR, 1929). Gogol meets Chaplin in this riotous, scathingly antibureaucratic satire, one of the eccentric high points of Soviet silent cinema. Stop-motion bits of puppetry and animation, as well as expressionist decor and camera angles, make My Grandmother seem like a blast from the future, not the past. (65 mins)