The movie “Children of the People” directed by Mahmoud Karimi and produced by Seyed Ali Ahmadi, a product of Behesht Imamreza Charity Foundation “Ali al-Salaam”, won the best film award at the BRICS+ Russia International Festival.
According to Saba, This film, which was one of the phenomena of the Fajar Film Festival in 1403 with 14 Simorgh nominations, three Crystal Simorghs and an honorary diploma, despite the high capacity of international presence, due to the opposition of the investor, it entered the path of foreign festivals a year after its unveiling in Fajar.
However, in the same limited opportunity, “Children of the People” made it to eight international festivals; Zelin of the Czech Republic, Sulaymaniyah of Iraq, AFIN of Australia, Nebrodi Cinema DOC of Italy, Heartland of America, Asian Film Barcelona of Spain, Guglielmo Marconi of Italy and BRICS+ of Russia.
But then, with renewed insistence to remove the film from the festival program, the four Sulaymaniyah, AFIN, Nebrodi and Heartland festivals accepted this request; While the Barcelona, Guglielmo Marconi and BRICS+ festivals opposed the removal of the film.
Now “Children of the People” has won the best film award at the BRICS+ festival, one of the same festivals that did not accept the request to remove the film; A success that, while showing the international capacity of this work, raises questions about its missed opportunities in the past year.
