AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

Béla Tarr’s 1994 masterpiece immerses viewers in the darkest, dankest, grimmest and most godforsaken of worlds — a derelict Hungarian village, its inhabitants adrift after the fall of Communism and the dissolution of their farming collective. The film is truly uncompromising in its cinematic vision: black-and-white cinematography, long takes and slowly paced (indeed, the film is a foundational text for what came to be called “slow cinema”) but sharply realized scenes sprawling across an epic seven-plus hours of screen time.

Ousmane Sembène's brilliant and stirring feature debut, BLACK GIRL, is a harrowing human drama and radical political statement. Preceded by BOROM SARRET, a short masterpiece chronicling a Dakar cart driver's day.

This blistering feature debut from Alejandro G. Iñárritu brought the director’s electrifying visual style and bravura multistrand storytelling to the screen. In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers collide in a tragic twist of fate that forever alters their personal journeys.