2021
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KIDS Shorts Program 2
In collaboration with Annecy International Animation Film Festival
The Princess and the Bandit
Once, the princess fell in love with a bandit…
Russia
2020
Without dialogue
3 min 29 s
4+
Director: Sosnina Mariya, Mikhail Aldashin
RADIOGRAPH OF A FAMILY
Synopsis
I am the product of Iran’s struggle between secularism and the Islamic ideology. My parents’ love story takes us from the Shah era to the Islamic Revolution and the hardships during the Iran-Iraq War, up to the present day – all in our home in Tehran. In my childhood, I was constantly forced to choose between my parents; each day, I endured imposition from one side and acceptance from the other.
Norway, Iran, Switzerland
2020
Farsi with English subtitles
81 minutes
16+
Firouzeh Khosrovani
Born in Tehran, Firouzeh Khosrovani settled in Italy to pursue her artistic studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. After graduating in 2002 she returned to Iran and acquired her Master’s degree in Journalism. She made her debut as a filmmaker in 2004 with Life Train, a documentary on the ‘play’ therapy provided for the traumatized children of Bam in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.
SKIES OF LEBANON
Synopsis
In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist determined to send the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his relatives, but after years of delight, the civil war threatens their garden of Eden.
Drama
France, 2020
Arabic, French and Italian with Arabic and English subtitles
92 minutes
16+
Chloé Mazlo
Chloé Mazlo is a French-Lebanese filmmaker living in Paris. After studying graphic design at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, she specialised in making animated films combining different techniques. Her short films have been selected in numerous international festivals and have won several awards. In 2020, she directed her first feature film, Skies of Lebanon, which was selected for the Critics' Week in Cannes.