.jpg "A number of winners pose during the closing ceremony of the Cinéma Vérité festival at Tehran’s Andisheh Hall on December 7, 2014. (ISNA/Hamidreza Dastjerdi)")
TEHRAN -- “Atlan”, about the life story of an Iranian Turkmen horse riding instructor, has won the best documentary award at the Iranian international festival for documentary films, Cinéma Vérité.
The Iranian director of the film, Moin Karimeddini, received his award during the closing ceremony of the festival at Tehran’s Andisheh Hall on Sunday evening.
The film, which was directed in the northeastern Iranian region of Turkmen Sahra during winter 2012, also won the best feature-length documentary award in the national competition section.
The award for best medium-length documentary was presented to Italian filmmaker Filippo Ticozzi’s “Chasing the Wind”, about Karine, an embalmer who thinks herself as a gambler playing with the decease.
“White Chimney” by Finnish filmmaker Jani Peltonen won the best short documentary award. The film chronicles the events occurred to a group that arrived at Hotel Aulanko in Finland in the late summer of 1939.
The special jury award went to French filmmaker Nadege Trebal for her “Scrap Yard” (“Casse”), which documents a vast automobile scrap yard in France and the characters who populate it.
The winners of the national competition section of the festival were also honored during the ceremony.
Producers Mohammad-Ali Farsi and Fat’hollah Amiri shared the Grand Prix of this section for their films “Clouds on the Way” and “Life in Cold Veins”.
Best medium-length documentary award was presented to “Mr. Unemployed” directed by Ali Hamraz, and best short documentary award went to “Spoon” by Jalal Veisi.
In this section, director Mohsen Ostad-Ali was also honored with the special jury prize for his feature documentary “A Place to Live”.
Iranian documentarian Kamran Shirdel, Australia’s World Congress of Science and Factual Producers editorial director Alison Leigh and Polish filmmaker Pawel Lozinski were the members of the jury for the feature length documentary section.
The members of the jury for the mid-length and short film sections were Iranian filmmaker Mahvash Sheikholeslami, Italian film critic Giona Antonio Nazzaro and Egyptian critic Yakout El-Deeb.
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