About the Film

Reviews

“Uncommonly concerned with depicting people from different backgrounds engaged in the radical act of listening to one another, the film revels in the simple yet profound pleasures of conversation and cultural exchange.” – Film Journal International

“While Window Horses obviously comes from a deeply personal place, the richly rewarding, poetic Persian epiphany that results in Rosie’s emergence from under that chador as a fully realized individual touches on a universally shared pursuit of identity and belonging.” - Los Angeles Times

“The film provides a counterweight to our xenophobic times, proving that human beings are more alike than unalike and that poetry can be relevant across millennia” - Variety

About MFAH Films, Rice Cinema, and the 25th Houston Iranian Film Festival

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston offers a year-round selection of classic and contemporary cinema. Its diverse film programming includes festivals, retrospectives, thematic series, Houston premieres, and appearances by filmmakers, critics, and scholars. The MFAH and Rice Cinema at Rice University established the Houston Iranian Film Festival in 1993, and they celebrate the 25th edition with the participation of Asia Society Texas Center joining as a new partner venue.

Films will also be screened at Rice Cinema, which has been screening films, hosting forums, and providing a channel through which different peoples of the world can communicate since 1970.

Click here for the full film schedule.

Major support for the Performing Arts at Asia Society Texas Center comes from Nancy C. Allen, Ellen Gritz and Milton Rosenau, the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, and the Anchorage Foundation. Generous funding also provided by AARP, The Clayton Fund, Miller Theatre Advisory Board, New England Foundation for the Arts. Additional support provided by the Wortham Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and through contributions from the Friends of Asia Society, a premier group of individuals and organizations committed to bringing exceptional programming and exhibitions to Asia Society Texas Center.