ZAGREB, 17 Oct, 2021 - The children's film "My Grandpa is an Alien" ("Moj dida je pao s Marsa") by Dražen Žarković and Marina Andree Škop won two awards at the 34th International Film Festival for Children and Youth, which took place in the Iranian city of Isfahan.

The film won two Golden Butterfly awards, as the best film chosen by the young jury members and as the best artistic achievement of directing, the Croatian Audio Visual Centre (HAVC) reported on Thursday.

To date, the film has been screened at over 50 international festivals and it has won 16 awards.

In addition to being distributed in all seven co-production countries, "My Grandpa is an Alien" has been internationally distributed in a total of 26 countries, including the US, Russia, Japan, Spain and Ukraine.

The film was produced by Zagreb's Studio Dim in cooperation with the Croatian Radio-Television, Luxembourg's Wady Films, Norway's Filmbin, Czech MasterFilm and MagicLab, Slovakia's Artileria, Slovenia's Senca Studio and Art Rebel 9, and Bosnia and Herzegovina's Fabrika.

The screenplay was written by Pavlica Bajsić Brazzoduro and Branko Ružić, based on motifs of the story by Irena Krčelić.

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