Iran’s ‘Motherless’ awarded at Bangalore Int’l Film Festival
IRNA – The Iranian film ‘Motherless’ bagged the Best Film Award of the Asian Cinema Category of the 14th Bangalore In-ternational Film Festival (BIFFes) in India.
The film won the award jointly with the Silver Bear Award-winning Indonesian film, Kamila Andini’s ‘Before, Now & Then’, IRNA reported. ‘Motherless’ is the first fea-ture film made by Morteza Fatemi.
Fatemi’s film was previous-ly screened and awarded at the Dhaka International Film Festival and Crossing The Screen Film Festival in the UK.
The 14th edition of the festival concluded with 15 films across categories winning top awards.
A total of 42 films com-peted to win the Best Film Awards, with 14 films each in the Kannada, Indian and Asian categories. Veteran actor Doddanna was awarded the 14th BIFFes Lifetime Achieve-ment Award.