[caption id="attachment_121062" align="alignright" width="205"] Ascene from Salem Salavati’s film 'The Last Winter'[/caption]
Several Iranian screen productions have picked up awards in various categories of the 2014 Beirut International Film Festival.
Iranian filmmaker Salem Salavati’s Kurdish-language drama The Last Winter took home both the best feature and best director award.

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 Salavati’s previous short Snowy Dreams with the same picturesque winter scenery, calm, realistic life style and culture of Iran’s 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.

The movie garnered the Best Director Award at the 2014 Kazan International Muslim Film Festival.

The year’s Beirut festival’s Best short film went to Iran’s Ali Asgari’s More Than Two Hours, while Karim Rahbani’s With Thy Spirit took the jury prize for shorts.

Iranian actor Homayoun Ershadi along with other jurors including the  Protagonist Pictures CEO Mike Goodrich, former Sundance Institute director Alesia Weston, and The Attack screenwriter Joelle Touma served at the festival’s jury panel headed by the French actress and director Julie Gayet.

The 14th edition of Beirut International Film Festival took place from October 1 through 9, 2014.

By Press TV

 

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