TEHRAN -- “Days of Life”, an Iranian film war drama, was crowned the best feature at the closing ceremony of the first edition of the Iranian international festival of independent filmmakers, New Horizon, at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Friday.
Directed by Parviz Sheikhradi, the film is set during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. It is about a physician couple working on the war front at a field hospital that is surrounded by the Iraqis.
The Best Short Film Award of the event went to the French director Marc Joly-Corcoran for his “Piece Coin”.
“We Are Wisconsin” directed by Amie Williams from the U.S. won the Best Feature Documentary Award.
The Best Short Documentary Award of the event went to “Four Horsemen” by Ross Ashcroft from the UK.
Over 120 foreign movies from Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, India, Greece, Denmark, Hong Kong and several other countries were screened at the festival.
The focus of this year’s festival was films with the theme of movements against social and political injustice in the world.
Films highlighting the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Islamic Awakening, Islamic resistance against the Zionist regime and the Islamic Revolution of Iran were the festival’s first priority.
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