Format : 80’
Style : Animation feature film
Script : Paolo Bonaldi, Michel Fuzellier, Lara Fremder
Graphic research: Simona Bursi, Donata Pizzato
Producers : Gertie (Italy), 2d3D Animations and Montparnasse Productions (France), Spectra Animation (Canada)
Directors : Michel Fuzellier
In development
Adapted from Francesco D’Adamo’s book Storia di Iqbal (Iqbal’s Story),
Developed with a contribution from the European Union’s Media Plan and sponsored by 
Italy.
The film is inspired by the true story of Iqbal Masih: sold and traded for 16 dollars to a rug merchant and moneylender in Lahore who reduce him to slavery to repay the family debts.
Iqbal is a good, talented boy, and his skills are necessary to help pay for medicine for his gravely ill brother: he needs exactly 16 dollars! Iqbal will have to pay off the loan by weaving rugs for a wicked rug merchant. But Iqbal proves to be quite a handful for the moneylender who, believing him more trouble than he’s worth, sells him once again for a profit to an even more evil merchant. To the bogeyman. Because little Iqbal is a great rug weaver, a true artist.
