Iranian short animation ‘Icky’ nabs award in Poland

Iranian animation ‘Icky’ has won an award at the International Film Festival for Children and Youth - KINOLUB in Poland.

‘Icky’ received the honorable mention “for an original approach to the subject of diversity, captured in an extraordinary metaphor about one’s place in society,” the Polish jury said.

The 6-minute animation ‘Icky’ is directed by Parastoo Cardgar.

Cardgar’s animation tells the story of a child in a world where people have a solved Rubik’s cube as their heads, but the child’s head is different from everyone else. S/He has an unsolved Rubik's cube on the neck.

‘Icky’ has previously received several international awards from a variety of festivals, including best animation at Romania’s Short to the Point festival, best animation at Seattle Film Festival in the US, best director award at the Bollywood International Film Festival in India, and best animation award at the 16th Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Arte in Italy.

The animation has also taken part at global film events such as the 12th edition of the Athens Animfest in Greece, as well as the 10th edition of the annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco and the 16th edition of the Kansas International Film Festival, both in the US.

The KINOLUB 2018 has also presented an honorable mentions to the Iranian feature film ‘21 Days Later’ directed by Mohammad-Reza Kheradmandan.

The KINOLUB is an international film festival organized since the year 2015 in the southern cities of Poland – including small villages, where the screenings are held in local cultural institutions.

Its focus is set on film education and that is the event’s unique and important feature, which is developed as well in other endeavors run by the Foundation.

The 2018 edition of the KINOLUB has been slated for June 1-22.

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