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To kick off their third series of films from the Middle East and North Africa, "Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 3", the Austin Film Society is showing Earth, a 1998 film by Deepa Mehta, a female director who was born in India and immigrated to Canada in the '70s. Part of Mehta's elements trilogy of films, which also includes Fire and the more recent Water, Earth focuses on the story of a young girl growing up in Lahore during the 1947 partition.