TEHRAN – The Iranian animation “Anita, Lost within the News” written, directed and produced by Behzad Nalbandi will take part within the forty third International Istanbul Film Festival, which can be held from April seventeenth to twenty eighth.
The piece, made utilizing puppets constituted of newspaper clippings, tells the story of a Kurdish-Iranian household of 4 who died within the sinking of a migrant boat within the English Channel in 2020.
On October 27, 2020, a rubber dinghy left France’s Dunkirk coast carrying 19 unlawful migrants to the UK, however capsized minutes later and 7 migrants drowned. Five of them belonged to Kurdish-Iranian households who had launched into this arduous journey with desires of a greater life.
At the time of the tragedy, there have been 10 individuals on board, over capability. One of the victims is nine-year-old Anita, and we observe the story from Anita’s perspective.
“Anita Lost within the News” has already been screened at a number of worldwide movie festivals in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
The Istanbul International Film Festival is Turkey’s first and oldest worldwide movie competition, organized by the Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation. It is held each April at a cinema in Istanbul.
The Istanbul International Film Festival was first held as a movie week in the summertime of 1982. From 1984, the occasion grew to become an unbiased exercise and was moved to April. In 1989, “Film Week” was renamed the International Istanbul Film Festival, because it was acknowledged as a “skilled aggressive competition” by FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations).
Director Human Seyedi’s acclaimed Iranian darkish comedy “World War III” received the Golden Tulip Award for Best Film on the forty second Istanbul Film Festival final yr.
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