Harpur Cinema at Binghamton University has launched its spring series of film showings.

This semester’s theme is “A Curious Lens” and is programmed by Tomonari Nishikawa and Chantal Rodais.

•Feb. 23 & 25: “Endless Poetry” is directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, the mind behind cult films like “El Topo” and “The Holy Mountain.” It presents the second chapter of his cinematic memoirs with Jodorowsky in his 20s deciding to be a poet and discovering the art world of Santiago de Chile in the late 1940s.

•March 16 & 18: “Félicité” by Alain Gomis offers a portrait of Félicité, a single mother struggling against poverty and daily challenges who works as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

•March 23 & 25: In “God's Own Country,” Francis Lee's feature directorial debut, Johnny is a young farmer whose life on the family's failing sheep farm is a monotonous grind of work and a sort of entrapping legacy. The arrival of Gheorghe, a Romanian migrant worker, leads to a passionate relationship filmed with naturalism in Yorkshire, England.

•April 13 & 15: With “Elevator to the Gallows,” Louis Malle's 1958 crime thriller, Harpur Cinema pays tribute to Jeanne Moreau, who passed away in July 2017. Over the course of one restless night in Paris, two lovers whose plan to murder her husband goes wrong.

•April 20 & 22: “Western,” the third feature from German director Valeska Grisebach, follows a group of German construction workers who have arrived to build a water power plant in a rural area in Bulgaria. The visual focuses on gestures and behavior of people confronting a cultural and language barrier.