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performances will be staged by troupes from Turkey, Georgia, Mexico, Armenia, Peru and Brazil during the festival, which opens in Tehran on
tales of heroes and their trials
Jim, an 11-year-old brave adventurer meets an old sea wolf, wins a treasure map, sails the seas on a huge ship, faces pirates, overcomes the
dangers of a desert island, finds a ghost and finally discovers his treasure.Renowned Georgian puppeteer Elene Matskhonashvili will attend
artist, Niko Pirosmani, who died in a basement.In her second puppet show, Matskhonashvili centers on Niko Nikoladze, a Georgian writer,
pro-Western enlightener, and public figure primarily known for his contributions to the development of Georgian liberal journalism and his
Karagoz to have it cleaned
Usually, a genie lives in old lamps
But this genie is not a bad genie
Karagoz is allowed to ask whatever he wants
However, Karagoz is so indecisive that he shrinks to the size of a thumb
Poor Karagoz comes across giants; a crow, a frog, a snake, a mole, a rat and a stork
He asks every one of them about his lamp, but not everybody has good intentions
And from the clouds to the earth, through water, under bad weather conditions his adventure waits for him
In the end the gold-hearted genie saves him from this situation
capture those little poetic moments that are hidden in daily life
These characters, with their dreams and frustrations, with their successes and failures, tell us about the eternal drama of the human
