Roshd Filmfest awards three Iran documentaries

The 48th Roshd International Film Festival has announced the recipients of Documentary Film Director's association awards.

Two of the Iranian documentaries that have been awarded by the association are 'Snow Roads' by Hayedeh Moradi and 'Razmara' directed by Ehsan Emadi. Both these films have received the cash prize and the honorary diploma of the event besides the association's plaque.

'The Season of Warm Breezes' directed by Hossein Rigi is the third title announced as the awarded film which could get the association's plaque and also the honorary diploma.

Launched in 1963, the Roshd International Film Festival is the first and oldest global film event in Iran.

Holding such a festival, Iranian ministry of education is aimed to exchange education pictorial incidents globally.

The main objective of the event was to collect the latest educational products and also to find an innovative way for training and educating children and adolescents in the country.

The latest edition of the festival kicked off on November 16 and is set to end on Friday November 23, 2018, at Felestin Cinema in the Iranian capital of Tehran.

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