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Museum of Art
El Paso Museum of Art
Foreign Films
The annual Foreign Film series focuses on contemporary classics of world cinema. Experience the diverse visions of world filmmakers with free screenings each Saturday at 2:00 pm in the Museum's El Paso Energy Auditorium. EPMA's film programming is made possible by funds provided by the Moor Foundation and the Wilma D. Morleen Foundation.
Movies show during the Summer on Saturdays at 2:00 pm (unless otherwise noted) in the El Paso Energy Auditorium and are free to all. Come enjoy a great movie on the big screen.
FOREIGN FILMS 2008 July 5 through October 4, 2008 [
JULY 12: IRAN
CHILDREN OF HEAVEN (1997)
Language: Persian
Director: Majid Majidi
Not Rated (brief language), 89 minutes
Majid Majidi celebrates the immediacy and essence of childhood in this delightful tale of a brother and sister who share a pair of shoes when the boy (through no fault of his own) loses his sister's only pair.
In 1970s Iran, Marjane "Marji" Statrapi watches through her young eyes the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However, as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
