Wim Wenders debut uses Hitchcock’s visual idiom and takes the detective genre in a contemplative direction as we follow a soccer goalie’s journey through the city streets after a night of murder. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 6 p.m. in the Muenzinger auditorium on Friday, April 8. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Football star “Flash” Gordon finds himself trapped with a scientist and a reporter on a spaceship run by Emperor Ming, an extraterrestrial villain determined to destroy Earth. Music by Queen! On 35mm film. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the VAC Basement auditorium (1B20) on Thursday, April 7. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school atop a mythic site where doctors explore different ways to ease the men’s troubled dreams. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger auditorium on Wednesday, April 6. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

In his follow-up to The Act of Killing, director Oppenheimer now turns his cameras to the family of one of the victims of the Indonesian genocide as they uncover how their son was murdered and confront the men who murdered him. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger auditorium on Tuesday, April 5. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Scheherazade doubts she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs 3,000 tons, so she escapes from the palace and travels the kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger auditorium on Sunday, March 20. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men, with a runaway murderer who dreams of prostitutes and partridges, and a wounded cow that reminisces about a 1,000-year-old olive tree, the dead and their ghosts. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger auditorium on Saturday, March 19. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

In this film, Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country where things are not what they appear to be, people dream of mermaids and whales, and unemployment is spreading. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger auditorium on Friday, March 18. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

A mad scientist has turned himself invisible and begins a murderous rampage with plans to dominate the world in this classic film based on the novella by H.G. Wells. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the VAC Basement auditorium (1B20) on Thursday, March 17. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Hitchcock’s original suspense masterpiece about a secretary who steals from her employer and seeks refuge in a motel run by a man and his domineering mother. See it on the big screen to really appreciate how every scene is packed with visual meaning. On 35mm film! Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger auditorium on Wednesday, March 16. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Essential viewing for cineastes while still offering rich rewards for neophytes,Hitchcock/Truffaut offers an affectionate and well-crafted tribute to a legend. Admission: $8 and the screening starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Muenzinger auditorium on Tuesday, March 15. For more information: www.internationalfilmseries.com.