Tallinn fest to screen ‘Fourth Wall’

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (POFF) in Estonia has been scheduled to screen Iranian short animation ‘The Fourth Wall’.

Written and made by Mahboubeh Kalaee, the 10-minute animation will be shown at the short section of the 25th edition of the Estonian event.

In the film, home and family, relationships, desires, wishes and everything are summarized in a kitchen. A stuttering boy is alone playing with his imaginations.

“A  stuttering boy transforms an  Iranian kitchen into a  fantastic cosmos.  The father’s body becomes a refrigerator, the mother’s belly a washing machine whose spin cycle gives birth to a screaming baby. Even birds on tiles and detergents have a surprising life of their own. This exuberant animation, dotted with real-life elements – fried eggs, broken plates, chess pieces – develops a subtle wit, ironizing ingrained family patterns,” a synopsis for the animation reads.

‘The Fourth Wall’ was screened at several global events, including the BFI London Film Festival in the UK, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, and the Animest International Animation Film Festival in Romania.

It won the “Zlatko Grgić Award” at the World Festival of Animated Film Animafest Zagreb in Croatia, the best film award at the International Fantoche Animation Festival in Switzerland, and “Mephisto 97.6 Award” at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig) in Germany.

The POFF is one of the biggest film festivals in Northern Europe hosting filmmakers and also journalists from around the world. The festival screens some 250 features and more than 300 short films and animations each year.

The 25th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is slated for November 12-28, 2021.

Iran’s ‘When the Moon was Full’ won the Audience Award at the 23rd edition of the POFF.

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