This year’s program champions the work of new and emerging directors while bringing back to the screen a landmark of Iranian cinema. Making its world restoration premiere, writer-director Marva Nabili’s The Sealed Soil (1977) was the first feature film directed by an Iranian woman.
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) / See It Now (1954)
Sat May 18, 7:30 p.m.
George Clooney’s taut drama follows CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and his newsroom team as they harness the emerging power of television to tackle McCarthyism.
Cameroonian writer-director Jean-Pierre Bekolo actively defies labels, mashing up genres and styles across a body of work that feels deeply grounded in the local even as it takes flight on visionary wings.
The World of Dong Kingman (1953) / Golden Gate Girls (2013)
Fri May 10, 7:30 p.m.
Directed by pioneering cinematographer James Wong Howe, this short follows watercolor legend Dong Kingman at work. Followed by the story of trailblazer Esther Eng, one of the few women filmmakers of her era.
