Iranian Film Festival: The Child And Angel - Film Screening

The Child And Angel is a 2009 Iranian film directed by Masud Naqqashzadeh, and featuring Mona Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Zadsorur, Afshin Hashemi and Qasem Zare.

The film tells the story of a girl named Fereshteh and her 11-year-old nephew, who lost their family in Khorramshahr during the Iran-Iraq war.

A young girl named Fereshteh (literally meaning angel) sees what may come in the following days. She is obliged to cross the war front to search for her brother. Fereshteh finds what she has already seen in her dream - living in the world of the dead; a becoming reward for an angel.

"The Child and The Angel" was selected as the best film of Iran's 23rd Hamedan International Film Festival For Children And Young Adults this year, and gathered 4 awards.

It also won the Silver Elephant award for the best screenplay at the 2009 edition of India's Golden Elephant International Children's Film Festival (ICFF), Hyderabad.