Window Horses

Window Horses

85 mins | Drama, Animation | March 10, 2017

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

85 mins | Drama, Animation | March 10, 2017

Window Horses
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
Directors Ann Marie Fleming
Writers Ann Marie Fleming

Cast

Shohreh Aghdashloo

as Mehrnaz (voice)

Sandra Oh

as Rosie Ming (voice)

Payman Maadi

as Payman (voice)

Eddy Ko Hung

as Stephen (voice)

Elliot Page

as Kelly (voice)

Omid Abtahi

as Ramin (voice)

Navid Negahban

as Mehran (voice)

Nancy Kwan

as Gloria (voice)

Don McKellar

as Dietmar (voice)

Nima Gholamipour

as Tour Guide (voice)

Azadeh Khatibi

as Doctor Mona (voice)

Kristen Thomson

as Caroline (voice)

Camyar Chai

as Cyrus Kazimi (voice)

Mehdi Darvish

as Sassan (voice)

Panta Mosleh

as Shahrzad Abbibi (voice)

Azita Sahebjam

as Aunt Farah (voice)

Houshang Touzie

as Hassan (voice)