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from the issue of June 9, 2005
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Ross to show post-Saddam feature film
The first feature film to emerge from Iraq after the American-led take-down of Saddam Hussein, Bhaman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly, opening at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on June 10, is a profoundly moving reminder that war spares nobody - not even a child - in its wake.
Between the borders of Iran and Turkey, the residents of an Iraqi Kurdistan village wait anxiously for the violent arrival of the United States military. Satellite is an ambitious adolescent who organizes the clearing of minefields and helps to install equipment that brings news from the outside world to his sheltered community. Meanwhile, three orphans are wandering aimlessly. Agrin is intent on ditching the helpless three-year-old that she and her armless brother Henkov have been caring for. Henkov has the gift of premonition, yet unfortunately all of his visions point towards a tragic end. As the planes arrive and Saddam is removed from power once and for all, these innocent children must still confront the bleak reality that awaits them.
Turtles Can Fly is showing at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center June 10 through June 23. Turtles Can Fly is not rated.
The 2005 edition of The Animation Show, opening at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on June 10, is an extraordinary and diverse all-new collection of the best animation from around the world.
This year's headliners include Bill Plympton's hilarious Guard Dog and Don Hertzfeldt's long-awaited epic, The Meaning of Life.
The Animation Show is showing at the Ross, June 10 through June 23 and is not rated.
Show times for Turtles Can Fly and The Animation Show are available at www.TheRoss.org, by consulting your newspaper, or by calling the MRRMAC film information line at 472-5353.
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ARTS HEADLINES FOR JUNE 9
Chiara Quartet selected as artists in residence
American Life in Poetry
Fountain Frolics series begins
Gude, Murphy exhibitions open at Great Plains Art Museum
Pulitzer winners to open Summer Writers' Conference
Quilt Exhibition Points To Early Political Activism By Women
Repertory Theatre readies for season
Ross to show post-Saddam feature film
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