TEHRAN – Iranian director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s acclaimed film “Tales” won the best film award at the 20th Kolkata International Film Festival, Persian news agencies announced on Monday.
The film contains seven short episodes, in which Bani-Etemad reveals the fate of some of the female characters in her previous films like “The Blue-Veiled”, “Under the Skin of the City” and “Mainline”, and also people who represent different layers of the society.
“Tales” won the award for best screenplay at the 71st International Venice Film Festival in September 2014.
Films from Iranian actress and director Niki Karimi went on screen at the New Horizon section of the festival.
Niki Karimi was on the jury of the festival, which was held from November 10 to 17.
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