Iran fest screens films for Gaza kids

Iran’s Ammar Popular Film Festival has featured films for children and women in Gaza in a bid to make them more familiar with realities.

The event particularly aimed to familiarize the Palestinian children and women with realities of Israel, teaching them love and resistance.

Iranian movie ‘Saturday’s Hunter’ directed by Parviz Sheikh Tadi as well as Mohammadreza Kheradmandan’s animation ‘Entr'acte’ was slated on the event’s screening schedule.

‘Saturday’s Hunter’ is about an Israeli port city in which a Jewish, widowed woman has to leave her young son with his grandfather who insists on keeping the child for a while.

The grandfather, who’s one of the heads of Zionism, tries to inject the little boy his own ideas and beliefs.

Kheradmandan’s short animation ‘Entr'acte’ is a narrative inspired by an Israeli sniper’s message posted on Instagram saying that he slaughtered 13 Palestinian children in a day during the 2014 Israel assault on the Gaza Strip.

A short film of Hosein Darabi ‘Alamak’ was also screened at the festival.

Ammar Popular Film Festival has an international section which goes against promotion of “individualism and extreme enjoyment without caring about the society's troubles and other human suppression,” the event’s official website noted.

The Ammar Popular Film Festival began screening in Gaza on Saturday, January 7-11, 2017.

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