Iranian animation awarded at Polish film festival

An Iranian animated documentary, ‘Anita, Lost in the News,’ directed by Behzad Nalbandi, won the Audience Award at the 6th Rising of Lusitania – AnimaDoc Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.
The festival, which ran from September 10 to September 23, is dedicated to documentary animation films, Mehr News Agency reported.
Created using puppets made from newspaper clippings, the 17-minute film is about a Kurdish-Iranian family of four who died in the sinking of a migrant boat in the English Channel in 2020.
‘Anita, Lost in the News’ has already been present at several international film festivals in Japan, the US, the UK, and India.
Nalbandi’s latest triumph builds on his previous success, as his earlier film ‘The Unseen’ has already racked up awards at film festivals around the globe, and now his name is cropping up again on the international scene, picking up another accolade to add to his collection.
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