Window Horses - The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

Directed by Ann Marie Fleming

Canada, 2016 (animation, 89 minutes, colour, English)

Also known as "La vie en Rosie - L'épopée persane de Rosie Ming"

Window Horses - The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

Image: © National Film Board of Canada

Video (National Film Board of Canada)

Film Description:
"Window Horses is a feature animation about love—love of family, poetry, history, culture. Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a poetry festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she'd rather go to 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 who tell her stories that force her to confront her past: the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of poetry itself. The film is 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."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	Ann Marie Fleming
Produced by:	Ann Marie Fleming, Shirley Vercruysse, Michael Fukushima, Sandra Oh, Ruth Vincent, Gordon Durity, Azadeh Khatibi, Mehrdad Farbod
Principal Cast:	Sandra Oh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Nancy Kwan, Omid Abtahi, Camyar Chaichian, Mehdi Darvish, Esme Finley, Nima Gholamipour, Azadeh Khatibi, Eddy Ko, Peyman Maadi, Ramin Mahjouri, Don McKellar, Taylor Mali, Panta Mosleh, Navid Negaban, Azita Sahebjam, Kristen Thomson, Houshang Touzie, Jun Zhu, Ellen Page
Animation:	Kevin Langdale, Younger Yang, Ian Godfrey, Nathaniel Akin, Janet Perlman, Sadaf Amini, Dominique Doktor, Bahram Javaheri, Shira Avni, Michael Mann, Elissa Chee, Jody Kramer, Kunal Sen, Louise Johnson, Lillian Chan, Natty Boonmasiri, Reid Blakely, Gemma Goletski, Ceile Prowse, Pyrrha Powilanska-Burnell
Film Editing:	Ann Marie Fleming, Ileana Pietrobrunom, Jean-Denis Rouette
Music:	Taymaz Saba
Production Company:	Stickgirl Productions, National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada

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Award won by Window Horses - The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award: Best Screenplay for a Canadian Film -- awarded to Ann Marie Fleming

Notes about Window Horses - The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

Selected as one of the ten best Canadian feature films of 2016 for the Canada's Top Ten Film Festival in 2017.
Shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016.

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Web Sites about Window Horses - The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

National Film Board of Canada. "NFB -- Window Horses - The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming." National Film Board of Canada. http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=62114&gal=1.
Office national du film du Canada. "ONF -- La vie en Rosie - L'épopée persane de Rosie Ming." Office national du film du Canada. http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/fr/notre-collection/?idfilm=64646. [in French]
"Window Horses." Stickgirl Productions. http://www.windowhorses.com/. [official site]