‘The Wind That Shakes the Sugar Canes’ wins Greek award

Iranian movie ‘The Wind That Shakes the Sugar Canes’ has grabbed the Greek Film Critics Association Award (PEKK) in Greece.

Written and directed by Ebrahim Ashrafpour, the film received the award at the 25th edition of the Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People.

This was the first world screening for Ashrafpour’s debut. It has some intelligent references to some of the remarkable Iranian children’s films that revolve around the childhood passions and dreams, which soon fade away in the shadow of the life crises.

‘The Wind That Shakes the Sugar Canes’ portrays the destruction of children’s worlds when they are destined to grow up so quickly due to big issues of their parents’ lives.

In the course of forgetting a passionate love for football and struggling for his father’s release from prison, the main character of the film is led into the labyrinths of corruption and exploitation to witness how the innocent world and the big dreams have been fallen down.

Established in 1997, the main goals of the Olympia Festival are the following: to inform Greek audiences about current film productions for children and youth, to contribute to the development of audiovisual programs for children and young people in Greece, and to encourage the film creation and the development of films for children and youth.

The latest edition of the event was held on December 3-10, 2022.

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