TEHRAN, Jan. 06 (MNA) – ‘I Dance with God’ directed by Houshang Mirzaee has won the award for Best Documentary over 30 Minutes at Calgary International Film Festival in Canada.

‘I Dance with God’ directed by Houshang Mirzaee depicts the life of an old blind man, Kak-Ali Badri, from Paveh in Kermanshah province. Despite his physical disability, he is a tailor. He has also managed to save up enough to buy a beautiful garden in which he plants fruit trees. The man has a lively spirit full of passion for life.

The flick has attended several festivals and won the Best Documentary award at the 9th Jahorina Film Festival in Pale, Bosnia-Herzegovina which was held in August as well as the Special Audience Prize at the MiradasDoc International Documentary Film Festival in Spain.

Calgary Internatioanl Film Festival was founded in 2001 in Canada. The event screens films in five categories including fiction, documentary, animation, education and performance on the theme of disability or works created by disabled people.

By Mehr News Agency