Sunday Happenings

Still from La pointe courte courtesy Harvard Film Archive.

It's the penultimate day of the International Women's Day Film Festival, and the Brattle is screening a collection of short films by women, which it will follow with a showcase of local work. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Complete schedule and more information.

The HFA kicks off its Agnès Varda retrospective with her first feature film. La pointe courte (1954) anticipated the French New Wave as much as it did Varda's mature style, which blurs the boundary between documentary film and fiction. It was shot on location in the port city of Sète and features performances by local fishermen, playing versions of themselves. Screening with Ulysse, a meditation on a 30-year-old photograph. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Cneter, 24 Quincy St., 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Gender Bending

-- Trannies take the stage for Traniwreck, Boston's only all-gender, all-genre burlesque variety show. It's the last performance in the Milky Way's current location, and there may not be another Traniwreck for a while, so be prepared. Milky Way, 403 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, 9 p.m. $7.