TEHRAN – The Iranian short film “The Plain Sings” directed by Gita Feige won an award at the 4th Idromeno International Film Festival held in Shkodar, Albania from October 11th to 18th.
The 14-minute fiction, produced in 2024, won the Best Student Film Director award at an Albanian film festival, Mair reported.
The film is about Gina, a 13-year-old girl who lives in a village with her family. She loves to sing and always takes the opportunity to sing a song when she takes the sheep to pasture, but her father realizes that it can get her into trouble.
The film, whose cast includes Dalia Kakaei, Afshin Kedri, and Sara Ahmadnejad, has won numerous awards at international film festivals, including Italy’s 4th Son of a Pitch Award, Austria’s 27th YOUKI International Youth Media Festival, and Germany’s 14th Berlin Kurdish Film Festival.
Gita Faizi, 28, a native of Sanandaj, Kodestan, holds an associate’s degree in animation and a bachelor’s degree in film, and is currently a senior director.
She started her career as a stage secretary at a movie theater in 2013. He had experience in film production when he was a student and produced short animations. She produced her first professional short film “Rozhan” in 2019. “The Plain Sings” is her second short film.
Since its inception, the aim of the Idromeno International Film Festival has been to emerge as a new voice that can offer a new way of looking at the modern world through cinematography, highlighting its rifts and seeking to find alternative ways of thinking.
Cinematography can be magical and a turning point. Through story and screen, these themes permeate the scenes, intertwine with the everyday, and show us something beyond imagination.
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