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Middle East Film Series: The Song of Sparrows

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September 11, 2018
All Day
Room 165, Thompson Library

We continue our Middle East Film series with The Song of Sparrows, directed by Majid Majidi, shown in Persian language with English subtitles. This film was Iran's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to the Foreign Language Film category. Dr. Mehrak Kamali-Sarvestani of the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department will introduce and facilitate a discussion of the film.

Film description: When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

This series is presented by the Middle East Studies section of the OSU Library, and the NELC department, with refreshments generously supplied by the Middle East Studies Center.

Please visit the Middle East Studies Library's website for information on more Arabic, Persian, and Turkish films to be shown this year.