Iranian drama Motherless was named best film while Life & Life garnered the best director award for Iranian filmmaker Ali Qavitan at the 21st Dhaka International Film Festival, the organizers announced on Sunday. Written and directed by Seyyed Morteza Fatemi, Motherless is about an educated, middle-aged couple, AmirAli and Marjan, who lead a ...

Over a dozen of Iranian movies will be screened at the 21st Dhaka International Film Festival, which will take place in the Bangladeshi capital from January 14 to 22. Six films from the lineup, including Forbidden Womanhood by Maryam Zahirimehr and The Last Snow by AmirHossein Asgari, will be showcased in the Asian Film Competition. Forbidden ...