Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

85 mins | Drama, Animation | June 13, 2016

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. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

85 mins | Drama, Animation | June 13, 2016

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
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. Rosie goes on an unwitting journey of forgiveness, reconciliation, and perhaps above all, understanding, through learning about her father’s past, her own cultural identity, and her responsibility to it.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers National Film Board of Canada
Original title Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Directors Ann Marie Fleming
Writers

Cast

Elliot Page

as Kelly

Sandra Oh

as Rosie Ming

Shohreh Aghdashloo

as Mehrnaz

Payman Maadi

as Payman

Eddy Ko Hung

as Stephen

Omid Abtahi

as Ramin

Navid Negahban

as Mehran

Don McKellar

as Dietmar

Nancy Kwan

as Gloria