Portugal to host Iran fest

Iranian short animated piece, 'Maned & Macho' is to compete at the 18th MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival in Portugal.

Directed by Shiva Sadegh Assadi, the flick will vie at the main competition section of the event.

'Maned & Macho' tells the story of a young girl, who is introverted, and her dreams are replete with her instincts and sentiments, depicted in the form of animals; but nobody in the family seems to like those animals.

According to the festival’s website, MONSTRA Animation Festival is a venue for young and well-known animators all over the world with the motto of “animation will neither start nor end on the screen”.

Every year, MONSTRA witnesses organizing exhibitions of world’s leading animation works, screening the leading foreign works and finally, holding expert-level sessions on the new and avant-garde areas of animation cinema.

The 18th edition of the MONSTRA Animation Festival is slated to be held March 8 to 18, 2018 in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon.

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