Film

Inspired by Lawrence University’s May 2012 Holocaust Symposium, “Surviving Anschluss” is a documentary featuring the symposium sessions as well as private interviews with four Viennese émigrés who shared their tales of escape from Austria after its annexation by Germany in 1938. The documentary was filmed by Lawrence students and produced/directed by award-winning filmmaker Catherine Tatge. Free and open to the public.

Filmed across the world – from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska to the Tokyo fish market – featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials, The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world.

Spend a relaxing afternoon at the Kimberly Public Library enjoying a new-to-DVD movie. This month's feature is Lincoln. As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. Rated PG-13. Refreshments will be provided.

A fantasy-adventure movie based on the Guardians of Childhood book series by William Joyce. Rated PG. Free popcorn!

A video game villain wants to be a hero, but his quest bring havoc to the whole arcade where he lives. Rated PG. Free popcorn!

Screening of Zero Dark Thirty. rated R.

Screening of Les Miserables. rated PG-13.

Film Discussion led the ESTHER TIP Task Force. Co-sponsored by ESTHER

Like a Chilean Edith Piaf or Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra was a folksinger and pop culture icon whose songs expressed the soul of her nation and protested social injustice. The film traces Parra’s extraordinary evolution, from impoverished child to international sensation to Chile’s national hero, while capturing the swirling intensity of her inner contradictions, fallibilities and passions. The film moves beyond linear biography to unearth the elusive, charged core of this magnetic character. Violeta’s heart-wrenching, indelible songs permeate the film and will penetrate the viewer’s soul.

Ignacio traveled the villages of northern Colombia most of his life, playing songs on his accordion, an instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He marries to leave the nomadic life behind, but when his wife dies, he vows to never play the accursed accordion again. On one last journey to return the instrument to its rightful owner, Ignacio is followed by a spirited teenager determined to become his apprentice. Weary from loneliness, Ignacio accepts the young man as his pupil and together they discover the musical diversity of Caribbean culture.