Children of Free Pizza & soda Soft drinks!!!

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Children of
Heaven
Free Pizza &
soda
Soft drinks!!!
a the Greek is a 1964 film based on the novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos
Kazantzakis. An aimless Englishman finds he has a small inheritance on a
ser a middle
Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba,
aged Greek with a real lust for life. As he discovers the earthy pleasures of
Greece, the Englishman finds his view of life changing.
A film by Majid Majidi
NOVEMBER 13
6 pm, FLB 1080
A FILM
BY JORDAN RIBER
Mohammad
Amir Naji,
Amir Farrokh
Hashemian, &
Bahare Seddiqi
Spoken
Language:
Persian
English
Subtitles
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LINGUISTICS
UIUC
Ali is asked to repair the torn shoes of his sister, Zahra. A garbage man takes
them, and a guilt-ridden Ali apologetically offers to share his shoes with her. So
Zahra ends up wearing his shoes to morning school, then must race back so that
he can put them on to attend afternoon school. With the birth of a third child, the
COMPANY
family
struggles to make ends meet. With the economic situation getting worse,
it is only a matter of time when even Ali's shoes will wear out - bringing out the
question: what will the children wear to school then?
In 1998 the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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