Finland’s Turku Animated fest to host ‘The Fourth Wall’

The 7th Turku Animated Film Festival (TAFF) in Finland is to play host to Iranian short flick ‘The Fourth Wall’.

Directed and written by Mahboubeh Kalaee, the acclaimed short film has been selected to be screened in the international competition of the festival.

A total of 44 films from Iran, Austria, England, Hungary, France, Serbia, Chile, Russia, Italy, the US, Cyprus, Switzerland, Greece, Estonia, Germany, Slovenia, Belgium, Hungary and Poland will compete at the event’s international section.

‘The Fourth Wall’ is a production of Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center.

“A stuttering boy transforms an Iranian kitchen into a fantastic cosmos. The father’s body becomes a refrigerator, the mother’s belly a washing machine whose spin cycle gives birth to a screaming baby. Even birds on tiles and detergents have a surprising life of their own,” comes at the event’s website as the synopsis of the flick.

The movie has previously received the Mephisto 97.6 Award for the best animated film at DOK Leipzig, Germany’s major international festival for documentary and animated films.

The 31st edition of Animafest Zagreb, a Croatian international festival for animated films, also honored the film with the Zlatko Grgic Award.

The TAFF seeks to promote animated film culture both in Finland and internationally.

It is a platform for encounters between filmmakers, industry delegates and local lovers of animation.

The upcoming edition of the festival will take place on August 24-28, 2022 in Turku, Finland.

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