TEHRAN-“Gilgamesh”, an Iranian short animation made by Hossein Moradizadeh, will take part in the Sugar Loaf Film Festival in the US, September 23-24.

A 2021 production, the 10-minute animation has been produced by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).
It will be screened at the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center in New York on September 24, the IIDCYA website reported.
The short flick has been screened in more than 10 international film festivals so far including Asian Feedback Film Festival in the US, T-Short Animated Film Online Festival in Germany, Kalakari Film Festival in India, International Folklore Film Festival in India, Zero Plus International Film Festival in Russia, and Tofuzi International Animated Film Festival in Georgia.
Gilgamesh is the oldest epic and literary work in the world. The oldest written part of it dates back to the second millennium BC, but its history dates back to three thousand years BC. The Gilgamesh saga best describes human destiny in search of immortality. Gilgamesh, the famous hero of Uruk, a city in the land of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, who has a semi-divine-semi-human character, strives for immortality for a lifetime and fails many times but eventually finds a plant that immortalizes him; however, a snake steals the plant from him and this is when all his life-time achievement is lost
The Sugar Loaf Film Festival’s mission is to highlight and celebrate the work of emerging filmmakers creating films and documentaries on both local and international platforms.
The IIDCYA is an Iranian institution with a wide range of cultural and artistic activities in the field of mental and cultural development for children and young adults including books, toys, animations, and films.

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