Elizabethtown College Global Film Series features German, French, Aussie, South African themes

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Weeping Camel

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (01/07/2015)(readMedia)-- Elizabethtown College presents its 2015 winter and spring Global Film Series. All films are shown in their respective languages, with subtitles in English, at 7 p.m. in the College's Gibble Auditorium. Admission is free.

The first film of the season, shown Thursday, Jan. 15, is "The Weeping Camel," a 2003 German docudrama about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia who are trying to save the life of a rare white Bactrian camel calf rejected by its mother. The film was directed and written by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni.

On Thursday, Feb. 12, the College's Office of International Student Services and the High Library show "Amélie" or "The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie." This French film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre, which tells the story of a shy waitress, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while struggling with her own isolation. "Amélie," played by Audrey Tautou, won Best Film at the European Film Awards; it won four César Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay) and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

"The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert" is scheduled for Thursday, March 12. The1994 Australian comedy-drama, written and directed by Stephan Elliott, follows the journey of two drag queens and a transsexual woman, played by Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp. The trio travels across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named "Priscilla." The film was noted for helping to bring Australian cinema to world attention and for its positive portrayal of LGBT individuals.

Closing out the Global Film Series is "The Gods Must be Crazy," scheduled for Thursday, April 9. The 1980 South African comic allegory depicts a traveling Bushman in the Kalahari Desert who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries. He encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle-which he takes it back to his people. They start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from.

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