Iranian ‘Gando’ wins in Italy

Iranian documentary ‘Gando’ has garnered the top award of short film section at the 6th edition of the Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival in Italy.

Directed by Teimour Qaderi, ‘Gando’ narrates the story of a little girl named Hawa, who lives in a village in Iran’s Sistan and Balouchestan Province.

She has been attacked by a crocodile and lost her arm.

The little girl shown in the flick is one of many kids in the province who have to travel long paths to fetch water from ponds where Gandos (a type of crocodile local to the south of Iran) reside.

The little kids are attacked by the wild reptiles and, as a result, they are either eaten alive or mutilated.

The 8-minute flick has already been screened at a number of global events, including the Picknic Film Festival in Spain and the EBS International Doc Festival in South Korea.

According to the official website of the festival “this year's edition collected over 500 films from all five continents, 23 then made it to the finals in the various categories. The finalists were screened at the Cinema Moderno Citiplex from Monday 15 to Friday 19 November, every afternoon, with free admission”.

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