Film calendar

Leonard A. Oakland Film Festival - Fourth annual event pays tribute to Oakland, who is a professor of English and a member of the Core 250 team and has taught at Whitworth for 46 years. Since he moved into a half-time faculty position, the university has been working with his friends and family to create an endowment in his name. Since Oakland has identified film studies as the area he’s most excited about funding for the long-term, the endowment is being used to fund an annual film festival. Today, “Breaking Away” at 7 p.m. Directed by Peter Yates, this 1979 film follows four buddies, high school grads who are working-class townies surrounding by the gownies who go to the big university in their Indiana town, and don’t know what to do next with their lives. But one, at least, has a dream. Also showing that night will be “Bad News Bears” at 11 p.m. Saturday, Secret International Film at 7 p.m. Rights were still being secured at press time. Enjoy a contemporary international film that explores Europe in the ’70s. The program will open with the winners of the 2012 student-made short-film contest. Also showing Saturday will be “Harold & Maude” at 11 p.m. Whitworth University, Robinson Teaching Theatre in Weyerhaeuser Hall, 300 W. Hawthorne Road. (509) 777-4250.

Only Time will Tell: RiverSpeak Variety Show - In conjunction with the exhibition in the Chase Gallery, Riverspeak Collective and the Spokane Arts Commission are hosting a variety show of performances, video and poetry. The art and poetry exhibition in the Chase Gallery continues through Feb. 24. Today, 6 p.m., at Spokane City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. Free.

“The Godfather” - Classic movie presented by 7B Productions. Today, 7 p.m. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave., Sandpoint. $7/adults, $6/seniors and students. (208) 263-9191.

“The Wind and the Lion” - Based on a true incident and stars Sean Connery as a North African bandit who kidnaps an American family, with Brian Keith in a strong supporting role as President Theodore Roosevelt. Snacks will be provided. Today, 7 p.m. Lidgerwood Presbyterian Church, 4449 N. Nevada St. Free. (509) 487-9667.

“I Love You … Me Neither” - Eastern Washington assistant professor Sarah Lee Monroe premieres her short romantic drama about an overweight woman who must gather her courage to meet the man she’s in love with but has never seen. Shot in Spokane. Tuesday, 6 p.m. Magic Lantern Theater, 25 W. Main Ave. Free.

The Bro Code: How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men - Filmmaker Thomas Keith takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Keith breaks down a range of contemporary media forms, zeroing in on movies and music videos that glamorize womanizing and pornography. Even as epidemic levels of men’s violence against women persist in the real world, the message Keith uncovers in virtually every corner of our entertainment culture is clear: It’s not only normal – but cool – for boys and men to control and humiliate women. Arguing that there’s nothing normal, natural, or inevitable about this mentality, The Bro Code challenges young people, men and women alike, to step up and fight back against the idea that being a real man means being sexist. Sponsored by EWU Women’s Studies Center. Tuesday, noon-1 p.m. Eastern Washington University, Monroe Hall, Room 207, Cheney. Free. (509) 359-2898.

Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story - A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery. This inspirational story recounts Baker’s struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her impossible circumstances. Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair in the state of Georgia and was executed in 1945. She was pardoned posthumously in 2005. Co-sponsored by EWU Women’s Studies Center and the Africana Education Program. Wednesday, noon-2 p.m. Eastern Washington University, Monroe Hall, Room 207, Cheney. Free. (509) 359-2898.

“America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments” - A film by Darryl Roberts, presented by the Inland Northwest Coalition on Eating Disorders and Center for Discovery/Oceanaire. 6-6:30 p.m., social with drinks and hors d’oeuvres, 6:30-8 p.m. showing of movie, 8-9 p.m., community panel of eating-disorder experts. Reservations required by Sunday by phone or to inced@comcast.net. Wednesday, 6 p.m.-midnight. Magic Lantern Theater 25 W. Main Ave. $15. (509) 209-2383.