Examples ranging from 1943 to 2013 and produced around the world reveal varied ways to open a film to set a tone.

Directors discuss creating believability while telling simple human stories.

Directors detail filming a conversation; Angela Schanelec focuses on body language in "Places in Cities"; Cecile Tang uses the zoom as guide through the emotional shifts in "The Arch"; Sofia Coppola focuses on "The Virgin Suicides."

Scene staging points to cinema's origin in theater; Kinuyo Tanaka uses staging to shape a scene's invisible geometry and accentuate tension between characters in "The Moon Has Risen"; Maren Ade.

Jane Fonda narrates the stories of 18 films about children from Germany, Belgium, Mongolia, Sweden, Russia, Canada, Senegal, Argentina and Scotland.

Directors demonstrate the art of POV, including Jocelyn Moorhouse, Ida Lupino, Edith Carlmar, Sofia Coppola, Liliana Cavani, Kelly Reichart, Larisa Shepitko, Jennifer Kent and others.