This is a free Film screening part of "North of 49 Movies on Campus" First come, first-seated. Tell your friends! Window Horses is an animated feature. It's about love (it's always about love…) - love of family, poetry, history, culture
Date/Time: Nov 16 2017, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Vancouver, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts | Event calendarCost: Free
Here's the story: Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with her over-protective Chinese grandparents and has never been anywhere by herself. Once in Iran, she finds herself in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of Poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry.
"Voiced by award-winning actress Sandra Oh (who also produced the film and championed it in its early stages), Rosie is a blank slate, largely unfamiliar with poetry other than her own, or the Iranian and Chinese cultures of her ancestors. An invitation to Iran transforms Rosie’s concept of the world and allows the film to depict the history and art of Iran in an organic and appealing way." - The Gambit
"North of 49 Movies on Campus" is a series of Canadian films screenings on campuses across the country with support from Telefilm Canada and local festivals. We are thrilled to be partnering with the Vancouver International Film Festival and Telefilm Canada to screen four outstanding productions, November 9 and 16, 2017 and January 18, 2018.
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