Sixteen-year-old Juno is smarter than most of the people around her. She knows it, and in her prickly sarcasm and eye-rolling “You’re such a dope” tone, she lets everyone else know it, too.

In the 1960s and 1970s, a new breed of avant-garde British film makers brought a radical new idea to their craft: Instead of dwelling on what a film was about, they were interested in how their film was produced—specifically, how the celluloid itself was printed and processed . . .

Flickering and uncertain, Jean- Dominique’s vision comes gradually into focus, colors alternating with wavering images of doctors and nurses. He hears them speaking but realizes they can hear none of the words he tries to form. Like the character in the Poe story that awakens in a coffin, buried alive, a horrible . . .

While much the city watches the Super Bowl, the UWM Union Theatre screens a little-seen 1919 oddity tonight at 7 p.m.: South. This silent documentary compiles raw footage from Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 expedition, which ended with his crew struggling for survival after their ship became trapped in ice . . .

Tonight and tomorrow night at 7 p.m., the UWM Union Theatre hosts free screenings of Shape of the Moon, Leonard Retel Helmrich’s gentle documentary about the daily life of a Christian family living in Indonesia, one of the most Muslim regions of the world.

If the Shah of Iran ever enjoyed popular support, it had evaporated across large stretches of the population by the time of his overthrow in 1979. But what followed after a short, disorderly and heady intermezzo was a symphony of horror darker than any the Shah could have composed . . .

Paris in spring is a place for romance, but what of the City of Light in the dark of winter? Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places) is a bittersweet romance of overlapping couples and couplings, a drama flecked with humor. Snow is always falling outside and everyone’s overcoat is powdered in white. The action . . .

The UWM Union Theatre kicks off its 2008 Festival of Films in French with two Milwaukee premieres. Maurice Richard, at 7 p.m., tells the story of the infamous French Canadian hockey player who sparked racial riots in the 1950s while standing up against racism in his league. In the drama Private . . .