Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Hassani’s drama ‘Adjustment’ will participate in the 26th International Film Festival of Zoom – Zbliżenia, which is slated to be held in the Polish city of Jelenia Góra from March 6 to 12.
The film will compete with 58 short films, IRNA wrote.
Hassani’s drama follows Shahrokh, a nine-year-old boy humiliated and pushed away by his family and friends, who makes up his mind to assume a new identity and comes out to the people of his village. Having been through a series of ordeals, Shahrokh, dressed in girl’s clothes, shows up at school and confronts his classmates.
The film was previously screened at several festivals including the Busan International Short Film Festival, the Raindance Film Festival in London, the Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival.
It received the Grand Prix at the Busan International Short Film Festival and the Best Film Award of the Barcelona Human Rights Festival.