Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Hassani’s drama ‘Adjustment’ is slated to compete at the 36th Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from October 15 to 30.

The film follows Shahrokh, a nine-year-old effeminate boy humiliated and pushed away by his family and friends, who makes up his mind to assume a new identity and comes out to the people of his village. Having been through a series of ordeals, Shahrokh, dressed in girl’s clothes, shows up at school and confronts his classmates.

According to ILNA, the film has previously won the Grand Prix at the Busan International Short Film Festival in South Korea.

Mansour Nassiri, Fatemeh Moradi, Maryam Goldouz, and Jamshid Bahadori are among the cast of the film.

Cinekid Festival is the largest children’s media festival in the world. Children aged between three and 14 years old can watch new, unusual, and striking films and television productions and meet their creators.