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A restored 4K version of Bahram Beyzaie's 1989 film Bashu, the Little Stranger will screen at Carbon Arc Cinema in Halifax, Canada, on November 22 at 5:30 p.m. local time, according to Tehran Times. The film follows a boy from southern Iran who loses his family during the Iran-Iraq War and is taken in by a rural woman in northern Iran despite initial suspicion from the community. The outlet said the screening follows an October 14 showing of the restored version in Montreal, and the English-subtitled print was restored at Roashana Studios with support from Kanoon, the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. Tehran Times also reported that People's Child, directed by Mahmoud Karimi, won Best Fiction Feature at the first BRICS+ International Film Festival in Russia, with results announced on November 6 at a press conference in Moscow. The 2025 film, about orphanage children who search for their families after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, had earlier won three Crystal Simorgh awards at Iran's Fajr Film Festival. The outlet also reported that a short Iranian documentary won an award at the 15th Africa International Film Festival in Nigeria.