Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Gainesville Fine Arts Association Gallery (1314 S Main, Gainesville, FL)
Persepolis (2007) is a biographical novel turned into an animated film about Marjane Satrapi and her life as she experienced a tense political climate in Iran in the 1970s during her childhood. Sent to Vienna by her parents to seek a better life, she faces struggles adapting to a new culture as a migrant during a politically tumultuous period.
free and open to the public
The Migration in Film Series is presented by the UF Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship with co-sponsorship by the UF Center for European Studies, UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the UF Center for Latin American Studies, and the UF Department of Political Science.