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Iqbal is a dreamer, he is generous and he has high ideals. Aziz, his elder brother, is sick. He needs medicines, but the humble family of Iqbal can’t afford them. Without any doubt Iqbal knows what to do: he will buy the medicines for Aziz! And so, at night, he rides to the Mapur market to sell his beloved goat, Rajah. Naively he trusts a cynical hustler who notices Iqbal’s skills in weaving and sells him to Guzman, an unscrupulous slaveholder. Iqbal is so forced to work in a rug factory, along with other children. But Iqbal is stubborn and courageous. Led by his innate and unchanging sense of justice and freedom he starts planning the escape. Eventually, with great initiative and teamwork, the little heroes all together manage to regain their freedom and their own future. They denounced to the world that 'horrible prison that wanted destroy their childhood and their dreams!
“Iqbal: Tale of a Fearless Child” is an animated feature film loosely based on the worldwide bestseller “Iqbal” by Francesco D’Adamo, first published in Italy by EL Einaudi, then all around the world, the whole Europe, Nord and Latin America, Korea, China, Japan.... The film combines drama, comedy and adventure to tell the universal story of a group of fearless children oppressed by the corrupt world of adults. Thanks to their great willpower, creativity and a strong sense of justice, the little friends are able to regain their childhood. Friendship, play and imagination disclose the real meaning and the strength of the word FREEDOM.
Iqbal Masih, to whom the international day against child slavery, June 12, was dedicated, managed to organize the rebellion with his little carpet companions and to have the cruel slaver imprisoned. He thus became a sort of trade unionist who, at the age of 12!, gave important speeches in the most prestigious international institutions. Returning from the United States, he was slewed by a hired killer for having endangered the power of the slaveholders
2016