Rainbow Children: Portrait of Elika

Belgium 2018 12 minutes
  • Director: Maryam Bayani
  • Producer: Maryam Bayani
  • Cinematography: Victoire Bonin, Léo Malek
  • Editing: Maryam Bayani, Reza Mosadegh
  • Sound: Maryam Bayani, André Philips
  • Screening Platform: CinéDOC-Young

Little Elika explains that people in Iran value five things above all: rice, the sun, ice cream, fish and tulips. She gives a presentation about her home country in her school in Belgium, which includes a Persian poem which she directly translates into French. Her audience is amazed: Elika talks differently all of a sudden. Something foreign suddenly becomes familiar.