Alpinale Short fest in Austria nominates Iran’s ‘The Boot’

Iranian short animation ‘The Boot’ has won a nomination at the 37th Alpinale Short Film Festival in Austria.  

Seyyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib’s animation succeeded to win nomination for the Golden Unicorn at the 2022 edition of the festival which will take place from August 9 to 13, 2022.

A brief synopsis of the animation says, “A bird in a war-torn city, where there is nothing left but dead bodies, seeks food to feed its baby birds..."

‘The Boot’ has recently participated in the Oscar-qualifying El Festival Internacional de Cine de Lebu (FICIL) in Chile as well as the 2022 Animayo: The International Film Festival of Animation, Visual Effects and Video Games in Spain.

Following his first shot animation ‘White Paper’ which participated at the Oscar-qualifying Guadalajara Int’l Film Festival in Mexico as well as the BAFTA qualifying Frameline: San Francisco Int’l Film Festival in the US, Shakib made his second short animation ‘Game Over’ in 2012 about children and peace.

‘Game Over’ was screened at some 28 global film festivals, including the Academy Award-qualifying Int’l Animation Festival Chilemonos in Chile, the Seoul Int’l Youth Film Festival in South Korea and the Montréal Int’l Children's Film Festival in Canada.  

‘Oracle’ was Shakib’s third short animation about life and death which was made in 2016 and was screened at 12 film festivals such as the Bucheon Int’l Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea, the Cinema City Festival in Serbia and the Linoleum Int’l Contemporary Animation Festival in Ukraine.

In 2018, he made his fourth short animation ‘Ballsy: Story of a Revolution’ which was about fighting against a tyrant.

‘Ballsy: Story of a Revolution’ went on screen at the World Festival Of Animated Film, Varna in Bulgaria, the Tehran Int’l Short Film Festival in Iran and the Oscar-qualifying St. Louis Int’l Film Festival in the USA.

The Alpinale Short Film Festival (German: Alpinale Kurzfilmfestival) is a festival that screens films in the original sound. For foreign language films, subtitles are displayed, while some English films are provided without subtitles.

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