With the current state of emergency, animated films and series are more important than ever. As production has halted on generally all live-action features, animation has shown that it is still able to thrive and is almost exempt from the situation that many other intellectual properties are facing when it comes to media.
Keeping that in mind, the 18th Hiroshima Animation Festival is still scheduled to take place in this summer. While that is subject to change depending on how things advance with the virus, it looks like the show will go on between August 20th and 24th.
So long as everything goes off without a hitch, we know of one of the animated films that will be featured at the event. Iranian director Amir-Hushang Moin's production of Am I a Wolf? is currently scheduled to premiere at the event as was reported by Tehran Times yesterday.
Check out two posters below, with the film festival's promotion on the left and the official artwork for the short Iranian feature on the right. Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Produced at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, the movie tells the story of a group of children who perform the familiar story of the wolf and the yearlings in school as a puppet show. The nanny goat grieving for its yearlings and the angry wolf in its solitude face each other.
Am I a Wolf? will screen at the 18th Hiroshima Animation Festival, which takes place August 20th through 24th.