Venezuelan Festival Awards Aparat

Date: 09 May 2022 - 21:54

News ID: ۱۰۲۳۷۲

TEHRAN -- Iranian short flick ‘Aparat’ has been awarded at the Five Continents International Film Festival (FICOCC) in Venezuela.
Written, produced, and directed by Hassan Najmabadi, the film won four awards at the 2022 edition of the event.
It grabbed the awards for best children short film, best cast, best sound design and best short film director.
‘Aparat’ is about six teenage boys in a remote village who decide to work in the corrals in order to raise the money they need to rent an 8-mm movie projector from a tour guide.
The cast list of the flick includes Mehdi Qolizadeh, Ebrahim Najmabadi, Emad Mohebbi, Abolfazl Najmabadi, Amir Najmabadi, Amir-Muhammad Najmabadi, Muhammad-Reza Najmabadi, Zari Najmabadi, and Mehdi Rezaee.
‘Aparat’ has previously participated in the Batumi International Art-House Film Festival in Georgia, the International Children’s Film Festival – Cinekid ScreeningClub in the Netherlands, and the Gold Coast Film Festival in the U.S.
The Five Continents International Film Festival is an event where feature films, short films, video clips, web series and video arts from all over the world come together to compete.
The awards for the sixth edition of the event were announced on May 2, 2022.