The Oklahoma City University Film Institute will continue its 32nd season with Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The White Meadows” at 2 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Meinders School of Business Kerr McGee Auditorium.
“The White Meadows” is a dreamlike, yet earthbound film about a boatman named Rahmat who navigates the increasingly salty waters of a coastal land, collecting the heartaches and tears of its inhabitants. Drawing firsthand on the challenges faced by Iranian artists of today, writer-director Rasoulof’s deeply atmospheric and poetical film is an allegory of intolerance, brutality and mystified routine that resonates far beyond any one state’s borders.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art called it “a fiercely compassionate call for freedom.”
This year’s OCU Film Institute season is titled “Identity in Diversity: Religious Pluralism.”A discussion session follows each film screening for those who wish to participate.
Admission to all films in the series is free. For more information, contact Harbour Winn, OCU Film Institute director, at (405) 208-5472 or e-mail hwinn@okcu.edu.
Upcoming dates and films in the season are:
* Feb. 23, Rajnesh Domalpalli’s “Vanaja”
* March 9, Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies”
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