Tehran animation festival welcomes international filmmakers

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Festival, organizers announced at a press conference on Sunday.The films were chosen from over 400 animations from all over the world
submitted to the festival, with the most entries coming from France, said Mehdi Ali-Akbarzadeh, the managing director of the Institute for
Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA - Kanoon).Several workshops, meetings, and online webinars are planned to be
held on the sidelines of the festival, the official added.The animations come from South Korea, Chile, Poland, the Netherlands, Czech,
Japan, China, France, Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Brazil, and dozens of other countries, he mentioned.Films by Iranian
on the outskirts of a big Russian city
She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics
Soon after her lift-off into space, a number of animals follow that are hurriedly launched from Houston and Baikonur
The animals manage to colonize a faraway planet
After a short period of harmonious, undisturbed co-existence with indigenous life forms, however, the first human cosmonaut runs ashore on
panoramic vision of Pop Culture as a landscape, divided by a never-ending road where art, politics, sport, finance, generalized
It is a small thriller about people that are not always the best at making decisions
After being a woman who was responsible for a hit and run, spooky things start to happen to her.The festival will take place from May 29 to
June 2, after a one-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic
The event was scheduled first to be held in March, but it was canceled due to an increase in COVID-19 infections in the country.Photo: A
poster for the 12th Tehran International Animation Festival.ABU/MG