Iqbal by Michel Fuzellier and Babak Payami will have a showcase in Animation Day in Cannes

IQBAL, THE CHILD NO FEAR

A film by Michel Fuzellier and Babak Payami

With the voices of Bruno Solo and Yvan le Bolloc'h

 

IQBAL is a cheerful and smart little boy who spends his time between the games with his friends, his adorable little goat and his superb drawings.

One day, everything will change ...

His brother was seriously ill and needed costly, expensive medicines.

Thinking he would do well, IQBAL waits for the night to slip away towards the city. To help his mother and take care of his brother, he has no alternative but to sell his goat, with his heart tight ...

But nothing goes as planned ! or worse in fact!

The film is based upon the true story of Iqbal Masih young child born in 1983 in Lahore, Pakistan, sold at the age of 4 for 12 $ to pay for medicine for his mother. He freed himself from slavery at 10, became a public figure and spokesman against child exploitation and was murdered at age of12. The fiulm received a prize from Amnesty International.