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LEWISTON — Bates College has announced a change in the fall schedule and location for its screenings of the Global Lens Series of films from around the world.

Saturday screenings have been discontinued; screenings will be at 6 p.m. on Monday and at 8 p.m. on Friday throughout the fall. All screenings will be at the Ronj, the student-run coffeehouse at 32 Frye St.

Next up in the series:

“Gods”: Peruvian director Josue Mendez’s story focuses on the soon-to-be wife of a wealthy industrialist who is eager to shed her working-class background for the opulence of her fiance’s elite lifestyle, but instead finds the ironic contrasts of fate and ambition (Oct. 1 & 4).

“Masquerades”: This heartfelt comedy by director Lyes Salem centers around a gardener in a dusty Algerian village who dreams of improving his family’s fortune and marrying off his narcoleptic sister to a “real gentleman,” but she has other plans (Oct. 8 & 11).

“Leo’s Room”: Director Enrique Buchichio’s film is a coming-of-age story set in the heart of Montevideo about a young man forced to consider the true meaning of his reclusive lifestyle when he has a chance reunion with a classmate (Oct. 15 & 18).

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“My Tehran For Sale”: Iranian director Granaz Moussavi depicts a terminally-ill actress wearily relating her desperate quest for political asylum through a series of interviews with an unsympathetic government official (Oct. 29 & Nov. 1).

“Ocean of an Old Man”: This story of an elderly British teacher’s struggle to run a small primary school in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is Indian director Rajesh Shera’s debut feature (Nov. 5 & 8).

“Ordinary People”: Serbian director Vladimir Perisic tells of a young soldier during an unspecified time of conflict in the Balkans who is forced to come to a painful reconciliation with his own actions after following orders to execute a number of civilians (Nov. 12 & 15).

“The Shaft”: Director Zhang Chi’s wise and poetic debut follows the intersecting stories of a father and his two children in a poor mining town in Western China (Dec. 3 & 6).

“Shirley Adams”: In this deeply affecting portrait of ordinary courage in present-day South Africa by director Oliver Hermanus, a single mother struggles to care for her paraplegic teenage son in a depressed district on the outskirts of Cape Town (Dec. 10 & 13).

Admission is $5. For more information, contact 786-6135 or [email protected].

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