German Grand Prix for “Rickshaw Girl”

According to Fars News Agency, quoting Dacatribone“Rickshaw Girl” directed by Amitabh Reza Chadouri won an award at the 26th Eschlingel International Film Festival in Germany.

The names of the award-winning films were announced on Saturday night at the closing ceremony of the festival, and “Riksha Girl”, a joint production of Bangladesh and the United States, won the top SLM award in the festival’s juvenile film category.

The 26th Eschlingel International Film Festival, which began on October 9, featured 77 feature films and 116 short films from 50 countries, drawing 17,000 audiences to theaters.

The top prizes of the Schlingel Festival went to Belgium, Bangladesh, Russia and Iran. From our country, the films “Sun” directed by Majid Majidi in the section of teen films, “Children of the Apple Valley” directed by Fereydoun Najafi in the section of Panorama, “Playful” directed by Nadere Turkmani in the section of children’s films and the short film “Hole” made by Amir Rouini Were present.

* Successful adaptation of a bestseller

“Rickshaw Girl” by Mittalley Perkins, an American-Indian author, became New York City’s best-selling book in 2007. Nafis Amin and Sherbari Zohreh Ahmad have jointly written the script of Riksha Girl based on its book.

The film’s synopsis states: Naima travels to Dhaka (the capital of Bangladesh) to earn money to treat her father and works as a rickshaw driver (three-wheeler), but this is not accepted in a male-dominated society, so her hair He shortens himself, becomes a man in trousers and changes his name from Naeema to Naeem.

The Schlingel International Film Festival is held every year in the German city of Chemnitz with a selection of films made for children and adolescents.

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