Shabih-e-hichkas

Puya Dalili

Iran / 2020 / Documentary / 23’15”I2105287

Shabih-e-hichkas
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SYNOPSIS

The story of Mehdi Azar Yazdi, the father of children’s literature in Iran, who died poor and a recluse in his hometown in the south of the country. Having never gone to school, he spent his entire life writing stories he wished he could have had access to as a child. A story of solitude, literature and lost childhood.

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