Plague, Beasts and Sugarman: Film screenings in Baton Rouge

Three critically acclaimed films will be screened throughout Baton Rouge this week and early next week.

The 2013 Oscar winner for best documentary, Searching for Sugarman, will show for free at the LSU Union Theater Wednesday at 7 p.m. The film chronicles “the greatest ’70s rock icon that never was,” Detroit folk singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez. RSVP is required; RSVP here.

Behn Zeitlin’s Oscar-nominated sleeper hit Beasts of the Southern Wild will be screened for free at Dodson Auditorium on the LSU campus Thursday at 7 p.m. On Friday, Zeitlin and filmmaker Glen Pitre will also discuss their work during a talk at Allen Hall, Room 102, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.

How to Survive a Plague, an Oscar-nominated documentary by award-winning journalist David France, focuses on the AIDS epidemic that hit in 1981 and was ignored until an activist group tackled the issue in 1987. The film will be screened Monday at the Manship Theatre at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8.50.