Iran’s children fest announces winners

The 34th edition of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Iran has announced the winners.

Opened last week in the Iranian city of Isfahan, the festival held its closing ceremony in the Abbas Kiarostami Hall of the Farabi Cinema Foundation in Tehran on Wednesday.

Acclaimed Iranian drama ‘Yadoo’ was picked as best film. Produced by Mohammad-Reza Mesbah, the film brought Mehdi Jafari the Golden Butterfly for best director.

Jafari also won the award of the International Centre of Film for Children and Young People – CIFEJ and the award for best photography director went to Morteza Najafi for his collaboration in the film.

The award for best screenplay was presented to Iranian drama ‘Sea Boys’, written and directed by Afshin Hashemi and Hossein Qasemi-Jami.

It was also selected as best film in the national competition and Yasin Habibpour won the best actor award for his role in the movie.

The special award of the jury of children went to the Croatian sci-fi ‘My Grandpa Is an Alien’ co-directed by Marina Andree Skop and Drazen Zarkovic while the directors also received the Golden Butterfly for best artistic achievement.

‘Lucia’ by Spanish director Juan Pato won the special jury award and the award for best short film was presented to ‘The Silence of the River’ by Peruvian director Francesca Canepa.

‘My Grandmother Matilde’ by Mexican director Miguel Anaya Borja was picked as best animation and the best music award was given to Rohan Rohan for his collaboration in the Indian drama ‘Sumi’ directed by Amol Vasant Gole.

Actors Alireza Shoja-Nouri and Ghazal Shakeri, as well as director Mehrdad Oskouee were the members of the jury.

Here is full list of the winners at the International Section:

• CIFEJ Award, Golden Butterfly, and Diploma of Honor went to Mahdi Jafari for ‘Yadoo’ from Iran
• Diploma of Honor of Short Animation went to Miguel Anaya Borja for ‘My Grandma Matilde’ from Mexico
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor of Short Feature Film went to Francesca Canepa for ‘The Silence of the River’ from Peru
• Diploma of Honor for Music went to Rohan Rohan for ‘Sumi’ from India
• Diploma of Honor for DOP went to Morteza Najafi for ‘Yadoo’ from Iran
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for the artistic achievement of directing went to ‘My Grandpa is an Alien’ by Drazen Zarkovic from Croatia and Marina Andree Skop from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Diploma of Honor went to Ferit Karahan for ‘Brother's Keeper’ from Turkey
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Acting Children went to Yasin Habibpour for ‘Sea Boys’ from Iran
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Screenplay went to Afshin Hashemi and Hossein Qasemi-Jami for ‘Sea Boys’ from Iran
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Directing went to Mehdi Jafari for ‘Yadoo’ from Iran
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Jury Members' Special Prize went to Juan Pato for ‘Lucia’ from Spain
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Jury Members went to  ‘My Grandpa is an Alien’ by Drazen Zarkovic from Croatia and Marina Andree Skop from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Film went to  Mohmmad-Reza Mesbah for ‘Yadoo’ from Iran

Here is full list of the winners at the National Section:

• Diploma of Honor in Corona Diaries Section went to Ilia Ramezai for ‘Life Space’
• Diploma of Honor in Technical Achievement Section went to Habib Ahmadzadeh for ‘Tales of a Thousand and One Days or the Legend of the Banasan, the Giant of Magic Lamp’
• Diploma of Honor in Business, Children and the Youth Audience Persuasion went to Behrouz Mofid for ‘Bam Bala’
• Diploma of Honor went to Hossein Rigi for ‘Lipar’
• Diploma of Honor in Web Series Section went to Faryad Bayat for ‘Ashmachz’ and ‘Digital Mistake’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Short Animation went to Fahimeh Qobadi for ‘ID’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Short Feature Film went to Matin Rokn for ‘I am Samira’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Feature-Length Film went to Karim Renasian for ‘The Secret of the Castle’
• Prize of Martyr Behnam Mohammadi went to Nabi Qolizadeh for ‘My Son Rasoul’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Music went to Masoud Sekhavatdoust for ‘Lipar’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor of Zaven Ghokasian Section went to Seyyed-Jamal Seyyed-Hatami for ‘Bam Bala’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Children Actor/Actress went to Andia Yahyapour for ‘Between the Rocks’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Screenplay went to Amir-Mohammad Abdi for ‘Bam Bala’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor for Best Director went to Hossein Rigi for ‘Lipar’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor of Special Jury Members went to Mokhtar Abdollahi for ‘Between the Rocks’
• Golden Butterfly and Diploma of Honor of Best Film went to Behrouz Neshan for ‘Sea Boys’
• Diploma of Honor of Children and the Youth Jury Members Section (in Online Format) went to Fahimeh Qobadi for ‘ID’
• Diploma of Honor of Children and the Youth Jury Members Section (in Offline Format) went to Behrouz Mofid for ‘Bam Bala’

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