Whitehead International Film Festival continues

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at various times through Monday Jan. 19 at Mudd Theatre at the Claremont School of Theology.

Tickets are $5 per individual film at the door.

The school of theology is at 1325 N. College Ave.

Here is the list of films and their descriptions taken from the Web site:

1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18
"Echoes of Home" - The Switzerland film is about how a young Swiss trio use yodeling to echo the sounds of the mountains which helps discover music in unexpected places.

4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18
"BenX" - The Belgium film is about the endless bullying of a teenage autistic boy in high school who uses computer games to escape and in the process befriends a girl online.

7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18 
"Arranged" - The U.S. film is about an orthodox Muslim woman and an orthodox Jewish woman who are involved in arranged marriages and hired to teach in a New York school system who connect and disprove stereotypes.

10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 19 
"The Band's Visit" - The Israel film is about an Egyptian band who mistakenly go to an isolated Israeli town instead of another location near the Egyptian/Israeli border.

2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19
"The Visitor" - The U.S. film is about a widowed Connecticut college professor who is depressed but forced into going to a New York conference and finds two young people in his apartment.

7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19
"Faro, Queen of the Waters" - The Mali film is about an illegitimate-born young man who returns to his village as a civil engineer after he was forced out in his teens.

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