Projeto Première Acessível: Extensão, Ensino e Pesquisa em Legendagem

Year: 2016
Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Country of origin: Canada

Rosie is of Chinese and Iranian descent, but she is disconnected from her family history — her mother is dead and her father abandoned the family long ago. Instead, Rosie writes poems in an ode to Paris, her dream city, but when she is invited to present her work at a poetry festival in Shiraz, Iran, she meets poets who expand her ideas about the art form and about herself. Rosie listens as diverse artists share personal experiences and national histories through their poetry, animated in a different styles to reflect the variety of life on display. Though many of the characters in “Window Horses” share a lively Cubist design, Rosie is the most sparingly-drawn figure onscreen, a stick figure with two small slants for eyes, but as the character learns more about her personal and poetic origins, her minimalist frame absorbs the weight of a rich, complex history.

Source: adapted from The New York Times.