The Elephant King (2017 film)

The Elephant King (Persian: فیلشاه) is a 2017 Iranian animated feature film created by HonarPooya Animation Company. This is the second animated feature film of HonarPooya Animation Company after Princess of Rome. Hamed Jafari was the producer, Hadi Muhammadian was director, Mohammad Bagher Mofidikia, Ali Ramezan, Hadi Mohammadian were members of Writing Team and Sattar Oraki was Composer of the film.

The Elephant King
Film poster
Written by	Mohammad Bagher Mofidikia, Ali Ramezan, Hadi Mohammadian
Produced by	Hamed Jafari
Starring	Saeed Sheikhzade Bahram Zand Naser Tahmasb Mirtaher Mazloomi Shokat Hojjat Zohre Shokoofande Hamed Azizi George Petrosi Bahman Hashemi Akbar Manafi Shayan Shambiati
Edited by	Hassan Ayoubi
Music by	Sattar Oraki
Production company	HonarPooya Group
Distributed by	HonarPooya Group
Release date	May 1, 2017 (2017-05-01)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Iran
Languages	Persian and English and Arabic
Box office	US$2.51 million

Story

The story revolves around the society of elephants in a jungle in Africa. Shadphil (the elephant king’s son) is supposed to rule the society after his father.^[1]

Production

A group of Iranian voice artists took part in this work. Bahram Zand, Naser Tahmasb, Mirtaher Mazloomi, Shokat Hojjat, Zohre Shokoofande, Hamed Azizi, George Petrosi, Bahman Hashemi, Akbar Manafi and Shayan Shambiati supervised by Saeed Sheikhzade dubbed this animation.^[2]

Release

The Elephant King was the only animation participated in Fajr International Film Festival held in Tehran in February 2018.^[3]