{"id":58960,"date":"2012-09-07T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=58960"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:13:28","slug":"glens12-fall-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/09\/07\/glens12-fall-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian film ‘Amnesty’ opens autumn series of Global Lens screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Luli Bitri plays Elsa in the Global Lens film presentation “Amnesty.”<\/p><\/div>\n

The Global Lens 2012 film series, a showcase of 10 award-winning international features, returns to Bates College in weekly screenings at 6 p.m. Mondays starting Sept. 17 in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n

Admission is $5. For a complete schedule of films, visit bates.edu\/museum<\/a> or call 207-786-8212. The series is sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

Opening the series is\u00a0Amnesty<\/em>, made in 2011 by Albanian director Bujar Alimani. In the film, a new law allowing conjugal visits in Albanian prisons presents the opportunity for a sympathetic affair between a man and woman visiting their incarcerated spouses \u2014 until a prisoner amnesty threatens their fragile new bond (83 min.).<\/p>\n

The 2012 series comprises films from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Rwanda and Turkey, as well as Albania. “Our community grows more diverse each year, and providing films from around the world helps everyone understand the similarities of the human condition and the particular challenges people face in various countries and cultures,” says Anthony Shostak, curator of education for the museum and coordinator of Global Lens at Bates.<\/p>\n

“The lineup this year is really going to surprise audiences,” says Susan Weeks Coulter, chair of the Global Film Initiative Board of Directors. “The cinematics are strong, the tone is fresh and the stories are thought-provoking and unlike anything we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re thrilled to be screening them at the Bates College Museum of Art.”<\/p>\n

This is is the fifth series of Global Lens films that the Bates museum has presented. Here\u2019s the remainder of the autumn 2012 schedule:<\/p>\n