Friday, September 12
Las Analfabetas (Illiterate) film screening
Directed by Moises Sepulveda (Chile, 2014)
LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 6 p.m.
Ximena is a woman in her fifties who learned to live on her own to keep her illiteracy a secret. Jackelin, a young unemployed elementary school teacher, tries to convince Ximena to take reading classes. Persuading her proves to be almost impossible, hence the two women embark on a learning journey where they discover many types of illiteracy and that not knowing how to read is just one of them. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Sponsored by the Department of World Languages and Cultures, Elon’s Schools of Arts and Sciences and Communications, the Gender and LGBTQIA Center of Elon University, Pragda, the Spain-USA Foundation, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.