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This is the sixth event for Welcome Week 2024! More Welcome Week info here.

Hosted by the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council and co-hosted with the FilmScene. Come join us for a special screening of The Monk and the Gun, one of ICFRC’s fall 2024 democracy series programs. After brief opening remarks, we will watch this critically acclaimed 2023 film. Attendees will receive a free popcorn upon entry. Reserve your seat here: Film Description: Set in 2006, the Kingdom of Bhutan is looking to become a democracy, so looking to hold an election, government officials organize a mock election as a training exercise. In the town of Ura, an old lama orders a monk to get a pair of weapons to face the imminent change in the kingdom. Meanwhile, an American antique weapons collector lands in Bhutan in search of a valuable rifle that falls into the monk’s hands.