Iran ‘Retouch’ grabs another US award

Iranian short film ‘Retouch’ has received the Best Fiction Short Film award at the 13th edition of the Traverse City Film Festival (TCFF) in the US.

Directed by Kaveh Mazaheri, the Iranian short film managed to win the award at Short Film Award section, along with ‘Skull + Bone’ and ‘Hot Winter: A film by Dick Pierre’ from the US, ‘It's Alright’ from Norway, as well as ‘Ten Meter Tower’ from Sweden.

Produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Society, ‘Retouch’ is about a young woman whose husband dies before her eyes and she just observes the tragic scene.

It has previously won Best Short Film Awards at the Krakow International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Tribeca Film Festival, all in the US.

Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning movie ‘The Salesman’ was also shown at the official competition of the US event.

Launched in 2005, the Traverse City Film Festival is an annual film festival held at the end of July in Traverse City, Michigan.

The event was co-founded by Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning film director, well known for his anti-establishment films and documentaries such as ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’, ‘Bowling for Columbine’, and ‘Roger & Me’, along with author Doug Stanton and photographer John Robert Williams.

The mission of the Festival is to show "Just Great Movies" that represent excellence in filmmaking, particularly those rare independent films and documentaries by both noted and new filmmakers that do not receive mainstream distribution.

The 13th edition of TCFF has been slated for July 25 to 30.

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