Week of February 15, 2015

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Sunday, February 15

Sunday, February 15, 2015
2:00PM
Otar Iosseliani (France, 1994). Otar Iosseliani's fascinating four-hour documentary presents the history of this former Soviet republic through interwoven images of landscapes, artwork, the civil war, and clips from other Georgian films. (240 mins)
Sunday, February 15, 2015
7:00PM
Billy Wilder (US, 1960). Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Art Direction. “An American classic” (NY Times).

Monday, February 16

Tuesday, February 17

Tuesday, February 17, 2015
7:00PM
Elodie Lefebvre (Senegal, 2013). In 2007 artists, choreographers, dancers, and musicians from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in a remote Senegalese village for communion, connection, and inspiration. This documentary captures their passion and commitment. With Alla Kovgan and David Hinton's short, Nora, featuring the choreographer Nora Chipaumire. (86 mins)

Wednesday, February 18

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
3:10PM
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
3pm
Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission free. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 3 to 5 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
7:00PM
Harun Farocki (Germany, 1983-2012). Introduced by Jeffrey Skoller. A tribute to radical theorist and filmmaker Harun Farocki (1944–2014), worldwide provocateur who taught at UC Berkeley in the 1990s. Films examine a Playboy shoot in An Image (1983), the Corcoran Maximum Security Prison in I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (2000), and office design in A New Product (2012). (87 mins)

Thursday, February 19

Thursday, February 19, 2015
7:00PM
Mati Diop (France, 2009–12). Mati Diop and Genevieve Yue in conversation. In these shorts from filmmaker Mati Diop, fictional and quasi-documentary characters seek a different life. Program includes Atlantiques (2009), in which a young Senegalese man recalls an attempt to immigrate in a pirogue; and Snow Canon (2011), freely adapted from Stendahl. In Big in Vietnam (2012), a director loses her star. (76 mins)

Friday, February 20

Friday, February 20, 2015
7:30PM
Mati Diop (France/Senegal, 2013). (Mille soleils). Mati Diop and Genevieve Yue in conversation. Fusing documentary and fantasy, Mati Diop's first feature looks back at her uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki. Its main actor, Magaye Niang, reconstructs his life. "Nothing is true and nothing is false in my film,” Diop states. (45 mins)

Saturday, February 21

Saturday, February 21, 2015
3pm
Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission free. 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.
Saturday, February 21, 2015
6:15PM
Merab Kokochashvili (USSR, 1968). Imported Print! The modern world comes to one individualistic worker's forsaken section of the Soviet empire in Merab Kokochashvili's neorealist village drama, one of the most singularly pessimistic works of sixties Soviet film. A true rarity. (80 mins)
Saturday, February 21, 2015
8:00PM
Claire Denis (France, 2008). (35 rhums). Mati Diop in person. Claire Denis magically limns the story of a father and his daughter (Mati Diop) as they face the inevitable: her independence. “Quiet and lovely . . . (shows) how the melancholy strains of ordinary existence are also its sweetest music” (NY Times). (100 mins)