Croatian fest awards Iranian shorts

Three Iranian short films have garnered 3 awards at the 28th edition of the Croatian One-Minute Film Festival. 

The Second Award of the festival was given to ‘The Father of Trees’ by Teymour Qaderi followed by the Third Award which was bestowed upon ‘Silent Lighthouse’ co-directed by Farshad Ghafari and Peyman Laghari.

Mohsen Najafi Mehri’s ‘Pumice’ also received the Fourth Award of the Croatian screening event.

‘The Father of Trees’ has previously competed at the 15th edition of the Mobile Film Festival in France.

‘Silent Lighthouse’ also took part at the second edition of the Minho Cine Festival in Portugal.

The Croatian One-Minute festival hosts films that promote solidarity between nations or use a new form to express the ideas.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the festival took place as a drive-in on July 11, 2020.

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