Iranian filmmaker Salem Salavatis documentary The Last Winter has garnered top award at the 10th Kazan International Muslim Film Festival.Salavati received the Best Director Award of the festival during awards ceremony held on Friday, September 12.
The 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 Last Winter 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.
The film was screened at the 2013 Golden Apricot Yerevan Film Festival as well as at the Focus on Kurdish Film Section in the 2013 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czech Republic.
Some 500 screen productions from 57 countries took part in this years festival and competed in various categories.
Established in 2005, Kazan international film festival is held in the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The festival, also known as the Golden Minbar International Film Festival, is held as a place for regular meetings and an exchange of experience between filmmakers from Russia and Islamic countries.
The purpose of the event is creation of an objective representation of Islam and Muslims in Russia and international community.
The participated films are required to reflect spiritual and moral values as well as cultural traditions.
The motto of the festival is Dialogue of cultures through the culture of dialogue.
The 10th Kazan International Muslim Film Festival took place from September 5 to 11.
By Press TV
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