Iran-Afghan movie wins awards in France

‘Rona, Azim’s Mother’, a co-production of Iran and Afghanistan, has been awarded at the 25th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France.

The movie received the Grand Prix of the International Jury and the INALCO (Asian Studies University in Paris) award at the festival.

Directed and written by Jamshid Mahmoudi, the 89-minute flick narrates the story of Azim, an Afghan refugee who lives in Tehran along with his family and works at Tehran municipality at night.

Being the family’s head, he must choose between his own life and his mother’s whom he claims is the most important one in his life, as he found out that she is in dire need of kidney transplant.

The film is starring Mohsen Tanabandeh, Mojtaba Pirzadeh, Fatemeh Hosseini, Fereshteh Hosseini and Fatemeh Mirzaee.

The film has previously succeeded to win Kim Jiseok Award at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. It also grabbed two awards at the Diorama International Film Festival in India last month.

The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas was held on February 5-12 in Vesoul, east of France, with the aim to present and promote the cinema of Asian territories, enhance intracultural dialog and encourage the discovery of other cultures through cinema.

SQ/MG