Six films will be screened during the University of Wyoming Honors College’s second Middle East Film Festival Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 22-23. The event is free and open to the public.
A new film series devoted to Understanding and Appreciating World Cinema, presented by La Cinémathèque, the New Jersey film society, begins on February 16 at the South Orange Performing Arts Center.
What struck me as I saw “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” which is set in modern Tehran, is how 15 years after the Green Movement, the fire of the uprising is still burning.