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The Fall 2016 Season runs September 2-December 16, 2016. All screenings but one for this season begin at 7:00 p.m. in Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239, 640 Oval Drive. Parking is available in the University Street parking garage, on the Purdue University campus. (Screening on September 9 will be in Forney Hall, G124, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, parking in Northwestern Avenue garage.)

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

October 19, 2011 - "Of Gods and Men" (2010)

Of Gods and Men, 2010
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Origin: France
Languages: Arabic | French
Running time: 122 minutes

Awarded Grand Prix honors at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, this compelling historical drama relates the ordeal of seven French Trappist monks in the mountains of Algeria who are taken captive by Islamic fundamentalists. Before the monks' abduction, they have ample reason to believe they may be in danger, but their assumption that there can and must be common ground between Islam and Christianity leads them to remain at the monastery. (from Netflix.com)

MPAA rating: PG-13 For a momentary scene of startling wartime violence, some disturbing images and brief language
U.S. box office: $3,954,651

Watch the trailer at IMDB.
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