TEHRAN -- The Iranian children’s movie “Growing in the Wind” is competing at the Gijon International Film Festival in Spain.
Directed by Rahbar Ghanbari, the film will be screened in the competition section of the festival, which runs until November 24.
“Growing in the Wind” tells the story of Aslan, a top student in a nomad’s winter place, who misses his chance to attend final exams due to the problems his father is dealing with. Now he has to study while leading the herds as a shepherd. But first, he is obliged to teach something of life to an older shepherd who has fallen in love with his big sister: how to be a man worthy of loving his sister.
Gohar Kheirandish, Omid Zendegani, Hossein Abedini, Yalda Qashqaii and Zabih Afshar are the main members of the film’s cast.
Qanbari, who has also written the screenplay for the film, won a Golden Butterfly for best screenplay for the film in the International Section of the 26th International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults in Isfahan in October 2012.
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