The 5th Tehran International Animation Festival will be held from February 25 to March 1 at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).
Nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 2006 Academy Awards, the film is scheduled to be shown at IIDCYA’s Main Hall on February 26 and at the Kanun Cinema on February 27.
The film also won the Best Animated Feature Award of the New York Film Critics Circle, the Golden Space Needle Award, and the Tokyo Anime Awards in 2005.
Based on a story by Diana Wynne Jones, “Howl's Moving Castle” follows the story of young Sophie Hatter, a bookworm, the eldest of three daughters, a girl doomed to an uninteresting life as a hat maker. Sophie resigns herself to her boring fate, but fate has other plans for her. She finds her way to the moving castle inhabited by the wizard Howl, said by all to eat the souls of young girls.
Howl has been cursed by the witch and is seeking the love of a young girl to help him break the curse.
This year’s Tehran animation festival will feature 104 domestic and 161 foreign works.
More theaters have been enlisted for this year’s edition of the event and audiences will be able to view the films in five halls.
Workshops and professional gatherings are also scheduled to be held on the sidelines of the festival.
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