Ukraine to screen Iranian animation 'Run Rostam Run'

The 2018 edition of the LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival in Ukraine has picked Iranian animation 'Run Rostam Run' for screening.

Directed by Hossein Molayemi, 'Run Rostam Run' is about an old Persian national hero who should travel to the future and come to Tehran 2017 in order to make up for what he has done to his own son. In Tehran, he doesn't know whether to choose the legal or illegal way to reach his legitimate goal.

The 11-minute animation is a free comic adaptation of the traditional Persian tragic story of Rostam and Sohrab in Ferdowsi's masterpiece 'Shahnameh'.

The animated film was first screened at the Tehran International Animation Festival where it won the best animation and the best director awards.

It has also gone or been selected to go on screen at the Athens Animfest in Greece, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival in South Korea, the New Horizon International Youth Festival of Short Cinema and Animation in Russia, the Cinema Perpetuum Mobile International Film Festival in Belarus, the Golden Kuker International Animation Film Festival in Bulgaria, the Prokuplje Short Film Festival in Serbia, the River Film Festival and the La Guarimba International Film Festival in Italy.

'Run Rostam Run' succeeded to stand among the 8 award winners at the 8th Edukino Film Festival in Poland and won the best film award at the Wular Lake International Short-Film Festival in India.

The LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival is the biggest showcase of auteur animation in Ukraine.

Its aim is to prove that animation is not merely a tool to entertain kids but a form of contemporary art in which technological innovations — with the involvement of intellectual audience — tackle modern societal issues.

The 2018 edition of the LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival is slated for September 6-9.

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