Sydney Science Fiction fest awards Iran’s ‘The Sprayer’

The 3rd Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival has bestowed the best short animation award upon Iranian animation ‘The Sprayer’.

Along with Farnoush Abedi’s ‘The Sprayer’, short anime works from the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Belgium, and Australia were the candidates for the award of the best animation of the festival.  

Iran-based Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) is the producer of ‘The Sprayer’ with a theme of man’s hostile attitude towards the Earth.

The story of the movie is set in an unknown land, where a group of soldiers is on a mission to destroy all types of growing plants.

One of the soldiers realizes that the plants are not only safe but also useful. Therefore, despite his mission, he tries to preserve one of the plants.

“Due to recent changes in the environment, the hostility of human beings with the Earth, global warming, the gradual erosion of the Earth, and a desperate struggle to save the future, it seems the greatest threat in the course of history is happening for man,” Abedi said in his interview with local media.

“The animation is a symbolic look at this great threat, which can turn into a global issue,” he added.

The 9-minute animation is made with 3D technique for children aged 7 and up.

Previously, Abedi’s animation went on screen at the WILDsound FEEDBACK Film and Screenplay Festival in Canada, the Prague International Film Awards in the Czech Republic, the Wasteland Film Festival in the U.S., the Viborg Animation Festival in Denmark, the Torino Underground Cinefest in Italy and the Pigeon International Film Festival in Iceland.

‘The Sprayer’ is also the recipient of the best short film award at the 4th IndieX Film Fest in the US.

Recently, the animation has succeeded to receive the best short animation award at the 4th Human Rights Film Festival in Italy.

The Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival is Australia's leading sci-fi/fantasy film event, celebrating and promoting fantastical science fiction, fantasy and horror genre stories, from Australia all around the world.

The 2022 turn of the event was held on August 25-28.

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