Admission is free. Seating is first come, first served for the screening in the Modern's Auditorium.

Set in occupied France in 1942, Persian Lessons follows Belgian Jew, Giules, who narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he's Persian, not Jewish. While the lie temporarily saves him, he is then assigned the extraordinary task of teaching Farsi, a language he doesn't know the officer in charge of the camp's kitchen who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over.

Henrik M. Dahlsbakken's Munch brings to the big screen the life story of one of the world's most significant modern painters, Edvard Munch. Misunderstood by his peers, rejected by the art establishment, wracked with grief over the loss of his younger sister and tortured by addiction, the film portrays Munch's life, painting an intimate and nuanced picture of the artist and his work across four chapters. 

Echoes from the Hill: A Place of Our Own sponsored by the Denton Black Film Festival and the Martin Luther King Celebration Committee is free to the public.
Please RSVP in advance here or call 626.827.0511.