The film received the event’s CIFEJ Prize (International Center of films for children and youth) and its Best Cinematography Award was presented to Peyman Abbaszadeh.
Cloudy Children has been screened in several national and international festivals. It has won Japan’s 2015 Grand Prix of Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia, Best Short Film Award at Kinofest as well as the Best Screenplay Award of the 2014 Tehran Short Film Festival.
The film recounts the story of two students, in a village, who fight over things that they could never have as the sky and the nature.
Besides Cloudy Children, two other short Iranian animations The Chick by Mahboubeh Mohammad Zaki and The Old Tree directed by Farnoush Abedi were attending the festival’s animation competition section as well.
The Dytiatko International Children’s Television Festival hosts filmmakers, journalists, producers, cameramen, writers, animators and cartoonists every autumn.
The 2015 edition of the festival was held in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, from September 23 to 26.
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