Chichester Cinema at New Park
Persepolis
CHICHESTER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
And the Winner for Best Foreign Film is…
A selection of the official 2007 Oscar submissions for Best Foreign Film:
The French Submission -
An expressionistic animation stunningly drawn in black and white, this is a touching coming-of-age story about an intelligent, outspoken Iranian girl growing up during the Iranian revolution.
Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi’s debut feature showed how the Ayatollah’s fundamentalists seized power, forced the veil on women and imprisoned thousands of dissidents. Based on Satrapi’s own series of graphic novels, it draws upon her experiences in Iran, surviving traumatic encounters with schoolteachers bent on denying her expression, policemen determined to deny her freedom and Iraqi bombs designed to take her life.
Dedicated to the people of Iran, ‘Persepolis’ is a moving, universally appealing story of one woman’s struggle against oppression that deservedly shared the jury prize at this year’s Cannes, and selected as France’s submission for Best Foreign film at this year’s Oscars. (Subtitles)
(Tickets £6)
France · 
Iran · 2008 · V. Parranoud / M. Satrapi · 95min
