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Short Film Makan Wins Special Minab Award at 38th International Children’s Festival in Isfahan
Short film Makan won Special Minab Award at 38th International Festival for Children and Youth Award introduced this year in memory of Minab’s Shajareh Teybeh School children
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Day 4 in Isfahan
The 38th International Film Festival for Children and Youth completed its fourth day of activities in Isfahan on Wednesday, October 7, 2026. The Imam Khamenei International Conference Hall hosted press conferences and critique sessions for three films, Bride of the Springs, Shootinga, and Kakalooti.
“As a filmmaker, I believe the least we can do in the face of the sacrifice and suffering of the children martyred in Minab is to keep their memory alive.”
Short film Makan, written and directed by Mohammad-Hossein Abbasi, won the Special Minab Award at the 38th International Film Festival for Children and Youth. Mohammad-Hossein Abbasi dedicated the award to the grieving families of the children martyred in Minab and said, “As a filmmaker, I believe the least we can do in the face of the sacrifice and suffering of the children martyred in Minab is to keep their memory alive.”
Closing Ceremony and Awards
The closing ceremony of the 38th International Festival of Children’s and Adolescents’ Films took place in Isfahan with the presence of officials, cinema managers, artists, and cinema enthusiasts, and it began with the recitation of verses from the Holy Quran. Seyedabbas Salehi, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, announced at the ceremony that in honor of the children, he would not give a speech.
Arash Moeirian received the Golden Butterfly for Best Director for directing the film “Shoutinga,” and he said, “Its production was arranged in 20 days, and filming took 23 days in a basement from 6 pm to 6 am because Tehran faced power outages.” Amir Rahimzadeh received the Golden Butterfly for Best Film for Children for producing “Shoutinga,” and he said, “Today if the children watched the film and liked it, it is the result of the love of 150 people involved in the project.”
Festival’s Next Steps
Hamid Jafarî said that with the end of this edition, work for the next period has already begun today, and he described efforts toward establishing a permanent festival secretariat in Isfahan. Hamid Jafarî said the festival received “more than 420 proposals” in the competition section and framed the section as “not merely about being listed in the prize table, but a cultural commitment to storytelling and not forgetting.”
Ali Ghasemzadeh emphasized that “life can be defined at three levels: first, being alive and having vital signs; second, living and having activity; and the third, which is the highest level of life, vitality.” The festival’s closing ceremony also included a memorial tribute to Akbar Abdi, the cinema and television actor, performed at the start of the ceremony.