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TEHRAN -- Iranian director Tina Pakravan’s film “It Was My City” won the Best Short Award in the Asia International Competition of the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia held in Tokyo, organizers announced on Monday.
“It Was My City” begins in extreme close-up and in one impressive single shot widens to see a wide array of ordinary people living their lives against the backdrop of war.
Two other Iranian shorts “Emergency Exit” by Mehdi Jafari and “Glimmer” by Omid Abdollahi were also screened in the Asian competition section of the festival.
In addition, Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi, one of the jury members of the official competition of the festival, will be attending a session to discuss the influence he received from Japanese films and to express his passionate viewpoints on cinema from around the world.
The program entitled “A Homage to Cinema” is scheduled to be held at the Brillia Short Shorts Theater in Yokohama on June 16.
He will also discuss the award-winning film “In my City”.
Naderi’s Japanese film “Cut” was a hit in Japan last year, and his 1986 film “The Runner” is currently on screen in theaters across Japan.
The Grand Prix and Best Short Award in the International Competition of the festival was presented to “The Mass of Men” by Gabriel Gauchet from the United Kingdom.
The Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia was established in Tokyo’s Harajuku district in 1999 to introduce this new form of moving image to Japan.
In 2004 the festival was officially accredited by the Academy Awards, making the festival Grand Prix winner eligible for nomination in the short film category of the academy.
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