Iran ‘Leo’ garners award at Andaras festival

Iranian short film ‘Leo’ has bagged an award at the Andaras Traveling Film Festival in Italy.

‘Leo’ won the Best Super Short Film at the 2021 edition of the Italian event “for the ability to combine talent, intelligence, sensitivity, pathos, interpretation and the ability to surprise in sixty seconds”, according to the festival’s website.

“In one minute, one enters the story of Leo's report which gets brutally interrupted by a guard’s baton. It takes the viewer from a dimension of childish play with the shower receiver transformed into a microphone to the brutal, barren, desperate, obtuse reality of a football game played in a refugee camp,” the fest's website also said of the short.

Directed by Moein Rouholamini, the film is “dedicated to children all over the world who do not give up on their sweet dreams in the most difficult situations of their lives," according to the filmmaker.

The 2021 edition of Andaras Traveling Film Festival took place on July 20-25.

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