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Arts & Entertainment

International Film: "Of Gods and Men

Summer International Film Series:

This film is inspired by a true story.  Eight Trappist monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps the region. The army offers protection, but the monks refuse. Should they stay or leave?

From France, shown in Arabic and French with English subtitles. Directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Drama - 122 minutes.

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