Three Iranian screen productions have garnered awards in different sections of the 5th Baghdad International Film Festival (BIFF) in Iraq.
Iranian documentary A Look towards the Sky directed by Hadi Mohaqqeq won the first prize in the documentary section of the festival.

The film represents a rainmaking ritual in the Iranian town of Dehdash in Kohkiluyeh-Boyer Ahmad Province.

The second award of this section went to the French documentary On the Bridge directed by Olivier Morel.

Iran’s Salem Salavati’s feature length film The Last Wintershared the jury special award with Death Triangle by Adnan Osman from Iraq while the first prize was presented to the Ukrainian-Czech joint production Delirium directed by Ihor Podolchak.

Salavati’s 77-minute film is an allegory in which the depicted family represents those ones who are unable to change their resigned way of life.

The film is an expanded version of his previous short Snowy Dreams with the same picturesque winter scenery, calm, realistic life style and culture of Iranian Kurdistan.

Jalal Veisi’s short documentary Spoon is other Iranian film that shared the second prize in the Human Images section with the Palestinian director Fajr Jacob’s film Beirut-Mulholland, 150,000 Miles.

The winners were honored during a closing ceremony held on October 10, 2013.

Over 150 films from 50 countries were screened in different categories of the festival including long fiction, short fiction, documentaries, human image (films with a human rights focus), Arab women filmmakers and new horizons.

The 5th Baghdad International Film Festival took place from October 6 through 10.

By Press TV

 

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