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TEHRAN -- The jury grand prize that Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad won for “Tales” at the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2014 will go on sale during an international auction to raise funds for homeless women.
The auction will be held by the Toloo Bi-neshanha Society, a Tehran-based charity institute that prepares food for homeless people, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Saturday.
No date has been set for the auction as yet.
All the money raised at the auction will be allocated to construction of a center to be named “Mehr House” for homeless women.
Bani-Etemad handed out the award to the representative of the society during a charity show at Tehran’s Eivan-e Shams Hall on Friday evening.
Celebrated director Nasser Taqvaii also attended the show, during which his “Blank Page” was screened in a fundraising effort for the Mehr House project.
Bani-Etemad previously said that in her will, she has asked her awards and memorabilia to be auctioned under the auspices of her children Tandis and Baran to provide a refuge for female victims of domestic abuse.
Bani-Etemad won one of the two jury grand prizes at the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Award for her acclaimed social drama “Tales” in last December.
Earlier in September, she received the award for best screenplay at the 71st International Venice Film Festival for the movie.
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