The Princeton Garden Theatre is hosting its second annual international film festival October 9-11. “Garden Goes Global” is a grand tour of world cinema with nine films from nine countries spanning the silent era through the 21st century.

The festival begins on Friday, October 9, with Close-Up from Iranian pioneer Abbas Kiarostami at 7 p.m., followed by Greek provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos’ breakthrough Dogtooth at 9:30 p.m.

F.W. Murnau’s silent feature Faust, celebrating its 100th anniversary, leads the festival’s second day at 12 p.m. with live musical accompaniment by organist Ian Fraser — a screening that has been underwritten by the Central New Jersey chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and the Centennial Millennium Fund of the New York City AGO chapter.

Next, at 3:30 p.m. is Touki Bouki, Djibril Diop Mambé’s multilingual avant-garde film from Senegal. Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard’s road-trip through the French countryside, screens at 7 p.m. with a special introduction by New Yorker film critic Richard Brody (Princeton University ’80), who is the author of perhaps the definitive account of Godard’s life and work in English. The day wraps up with The Raid — the Indonesian film that has become a model for the modern action movie.

The final day of the festival begins at 1 p.m. with Yasujiro¯ Ozu’s Good Morning, followed by the rarely screened Finnish melodrama Restless Blood from Teuvo Tulio at 3:30 p.m. The weekend comes to a close at 6 p.m. with the Spanish landmark Viridiana by the Surrealist Luis Buñuel.

Festival passports grant access to all nine films and are $65 for general admission, $55 for students, and $50 for members of the nonprofit cinema. Individual tickets are also available. Passports and tickets can be purchased at the box office or at princetongarden
theatre.org/global.