Imago festival awards 2 Iranian films

Two Iranian films have been awarded at the 2nd edition of the International Imago Film Festival in Italy.

The ‘Casablanca Award’ for the best foreign movie went to Setareh Eskandari’s ‘The Sun of That Moon’. The director also received the ‘Stanley Kubrick Award’ for best foreign film director.

Parinaz Izadyar, star of Hamidreza Qorbani’s ‘Bone Marrow’, won the ‘Lauren Bacall Award’ for Best Foreign Film Lead Actress.

The ‘Billy Wilder Award’ for Best Foreign Film Screenplay was also presented to Ali Zarnegar, writer of ‘Bone Marrow’.

‘The Sun of That Moon’ is about Biban, who takes a vow of silence to never speak again after her husband’s death. She stays at her father-in-law’s house to raise her son together. Her days are as dark and silent as the night. Her life is desolate, until one day Hamraz, a lost love of her youth, returns to the city, and the sun in her heart again dawns.

‘Bone Marrow’ tells the story of Bahar who holds out hope for a rare medical operation that would require a fresh umbilical cord from her child’s birth parents, while doctors believe that her son’s leukemia is terminal.

The International Imago Film Festival aims to promote independent cinema by encouraging research and experimentation of cinematographic language.  

MG/AG