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Pica by Sepide Berenji
Pica by Sepide Berenji

Pica

Zaaghi, a little girl claiming to have come from the depths of the sea, gets into a taxi and asks the driver to take her to a big party organized by children at the easternmost point of the city, at the end of its darkest alley.

Director: Sepide Berenji

Director’s Note

Childhood should be beautiful, for every human society breathes with the hope of a new generation that is raised healthy and free. Only a beautiful childhood, full of play and imagination and distanced from danger, can raise free and hopeful individuals.

Meanwhile though, I know of many children who, due to poverty, war, and social and political crises beyond their control, are forced to bear the heavy burden of the anguish of migration on their little shoulders, in a single day robbing them of their childhood and perhaps never giving some the chance to grow up. Children who should live, play, and laugh, but…

Cast: Setia Asadi , AmirAbbas Nourazei

Director: Sepide Berenji

Producer: Behnam Behzadi

Screenplay: Sepide Berenji

Cinematographer: Masud Amini Tirani

Editor: Mohmmad Najarian

Selection and award :

  • 13th Diaspora Film Festival (DIAFF) South Korea 2025
  • 12th edition of Sharjah International Film Festival For Children & Youth UAE 2022