Indian award goes to Iranian odd equation '60=1'

Iranian '60=1' has won best film award at the 3rd edition of the Acharya Tulsi Short Film Festival (ATSFF) in India.

Directed by Iman Davari the short film received the award at the international section of the Indian event.

“Birth, Growth, hope, death – The same life," a synopsis for the 1-minute experimental flick reads.

Iranian short film '60=1' has recently got a nomination at the 4th Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal.

The ATSFF uses the power of filmmakers to further the cause of peace, harmony, social justice on earth. From the outset, the ATSFF envisioned peace not as the absence of conflict but as a framework for channeling, processing and resolving conflict through respectful and non-violent means.

The ATSFF's primary projective is a not-for-profit festival established to celebrate and encourage the work of independent filmmakers from around the country on the themes of peace, nonviolence, social justice, environment and harmony.

The ATSFF aims to contribute to a culture of peace through cinema, dialogue and programming highlighting individuals on the vanguard of peace activism and social change.

The 3rd edition of the festival took place in Bikaner, India, on September 1-2, 2018.

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