A non-narrative film investigating death and the power of photography, “El Día Que Me Quieras” is a meditation on the last pictures of Ernesto Ché Guevara, taken in 1967 as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors in Bolivia. Not a political documentary in the traditional sense, the film alternates between evocation and straight reportage, centering on an interview with the Bolivian photographer Freddy Alborta, who made the famous image. Suffused with a sense of mystery, “El Día Que Me Quieras” is about our assimilation of history.

“Visually exquisite and deeply moving…Leandro Katz’s film is at once an elegy to the passing of the age of revolution in Latin America and an investigation into the history and mythos surrounding the infamous photograph of the beatific corpse of its central icon: Ché Guevara,” wrote Jeffrey Skoller in the journal AfterImage.

The film had its world premiere at the Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, where it won the International Jury’s Coral Prize. It has also won the “Best Documentary” prize in the Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, Chile. The film has been included in festivals in the Holland, Italy, Spain, Norway, Germany, Germany and France. It was part of the Visible Evidence Conference at San Francisco State University and also the New Documentaries Series at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. For more information, call the film’s sponsor, the Bates College Multicultural Center, at 207-786-8215.

An exhibition of photographs titled From Lynn to Lhasa: Photographs of Cambodian, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhists by Harvard photographer Kris Snibbe opens at the Bates College Chapel on Sunday, Jan. 26, with a 3 p.m. reception, open to the public at no charge. The exhibit runs through March 31 and is open to the public free of charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.

The display features Snibbe’s personal documentary photographs that contrast the lives of Cambodian, Chinese and Tibetan Buddhists in the Boston area with the lives of Buddhists in Lhasa, Tibet. The photographs ask questions about the compelling differences in various Buddhist traditions, while paying homage to their common humanity.

“For me, photography is a way of learning, communicating and phrasing questions that culminate in a fraction of a second,” says Snibbe, a staff photographer at the Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs since 1993. Snibbe’s work appears regularly in the Harvard University Gazette and has also appeared in publications such as Boston Magazine and the German news magazine Der Spiegel.