The The Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with Cartoons on the Bay(RAI), MAECI, International Crossmedia and Children’s Television Festival present a selection of the best animated films of the last few years.
Directors: Michel Fuzellier, Babak Payami
Characters: Ashanta, Iqbal, Malikian, Badaud
Animation/ 2015/ 1h27mins
In Italian with English subtitles
This animated film – set in Pandar, an imaginary metropolis built on the shores of an imaginary country in Southern Asia – is inspired by the novel Storia di Iqbal by Francesco d’Adamo, which is based on the true story of Iqbal Masih.
Iqbal is a 10-year-old good, talented boy with artistic skills and great personality. He is sold for 16 dollars to a rug merchant and moneylender in Pakistan. But thanks to his ability as a weaver Iqbal has been sold again for an exorbitant amount, more than 100 dollars, to another exploiter. He comes to understand that his debt, instead of diminishing, only increases. And also that debt will never, ever be paid off. His presence between the other little slaves in the rug factory provokes a collective consciousness among the children.
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