FOREIGN FILM SERIES

Based on Marjane Satrapi's best-selling graphic novel, the poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane Satrapi's memoir of growing up in Iran comes to the screen in this bittersweet animated film. As the Islamic Revolution of 1978 brings a repressive theocracy to power, little Marjane becomes dangerously outspoken when women's liberties are targeted. Later sent to Vienna for her education, she confronts cultural prejudices and the growing pains of young adulthood. Stars the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Simon Abkarian. 95 min.

 

Based on a true story. Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, asking her 12-year-old boy to look after the others. And so begins the children’s odyssey, a journey nobody knows.

 

The former orphan Laura raises her adopted son Simón with her husband Carlos in an old house and former orphanage where she was raised. Simón is HIV positive and tells Laura that he has five invisible friends, and she believes they are fruit of his imagination. Laura decides to reopen an orphanage for handicapped children in the location and during the opening party, Simón calls her to show the little cabin of his friend Tomás. The busy Laura does not gives much attention to her son; then she sees a mysterious masked boy and Simón vanishes. Laura feels the presence of other persons in the house and months later, the desperate Laura invites a team of parapsychologists to try to unravel the mystery. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil