Indian children fest awards ‘The Blue Girl’

Iranian feature-length drama ‘The Blue Girl’ has been awarded at the 8th Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth (SIFFCY) in India.

Directed by Keivan Majidi, ‘The Blue Girl’ competed at the International Competition Section of the 2022 SIFFCY where it won the FCCI (Film Critics Circle of India) Award.

The story of ‘The Blue Girl’ is set in a remote village in the rocky mountains of Kordestan Province, where everyone is in love with football, but there is no flat ground to play the game.

The children decide to climb up the mountain in order to find somewhere to play football.

The flick was previously screened at the 24th Religion Today Film Festival in Italy.

The 2022 edition of the festival featured more than 50 short films and documentaries made by children from over 30 different countries. 

The Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth is “an effort to sensitize children and youth through hand-picked quality films, with assortment of various topics starting from gender equality to environment, family values, friendship, aspirations, dream, self-confidence and importance of education from across the globe,” according to the event’s website.  

The latest edition of the festival was held virtually on April 24-30, 2022.

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