‘Parting’ tops Lebanese festival

Iran-Afghanistan joint production ‘Parting’ has received the best film award at the Tripoli Film Festival in Lebanon.

Held from April 27 to May 4, the festival’s jury panel presented the Best Feature Film award to ‘Parting’ directed by Navid Mahmoudi.

Narrating the story of suffering, the movie was introduced as the representative of Afghanistan to the 89th edition of the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

The movie has also gone on screen at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea in October 2016 as well as the 21st edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala in India.

‘Parting’ tells the story of two young Afghans in love, Nabi and Fereshteh. Fereshteh leaves the country with her parents to seek refuge in Iran and Nabi is to seek a better life for his love. The love story fluctuates between reaching and separation.

The Lebanese film festival gave the Best Animation award to ‘Dead Horses’ co-directed by Marc Riba as well as Anna Solanas from Spain, the Best Documentary award to ‘A Time to Rest’ by Myriam El-Hajj, and the Best Short Movie award to ‘Milk’ by Daria Vlasova.

Tripoli Film Festival aims to give the city of Tripoli an open gate to re-emerge and re-position as a cultural hub and a city of exchange, tolerance and arts.

Each year's edition brings new challenges on both networking and financial levels, and the most important one is keeping up with a high standard of professional organization.

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