ECC presents fall film series

Submitted by Elgin Community College

Screen the best in foreign cinema this fall during the Elgin Community College Humanities Center’s International Film Series. Held the second Friday and third Thursday each month, the series is part of the center’s effort to foster cross-cultural understanding through cinema.

Screenings are held in the Elgin Community College Arts Center, Room VPA 191D, on the ECC Main Campus, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to help support ECC study-abroad scholarships.

For more information about the film series, visit eccifs.org.

Ÿ “Mar Adentro” (“The Sea Inside)” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20. Based on a true story, Oscar-winning actor Javier Barden portrays Ramón Sampedro, a young Spanish fisherman who is paralyzed from the neck down following a diving accident. After spending 27 years depending on his older brother and his sister-in-law for his care, Ramón is weary of his life, which he feels is without dignity, and he tries to get legal permission to end it.

Ÿ “Lage Raho Munna Bhai” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17. This 2006 Bollywood comedy features Munna Bhai, a Mumbai underworld don who begins to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi. Through his interactions with the image of Gandhi, Bhai begins to practice what he calls Gandhigiri, a mix of truth and nonviolence, to help ordinary people solve their problems.