Australia filmfest awards Iran productions

The 3rd edition of Changing Face International Film Festival in Australia has dedicated 4 awards to Iran films.

‘Are You Volleyball?!’ by Mohammad Bakhshi won award for Best Cinematography in the Best Short Drama category of the event.

‘The Fox’ by Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh had also taken part in the Best Short Animation section of the festival and succeeded to grab 3 awards for Best Animation, Best Director and Best Sound Editing.

‘The Fox’ is about a young and lively fox that is caught by a hunter when experiencing its first love.

The hunter puts a bell around the fox’s neck and returns it to the woods. The bell prevents the fox from hunting and living its normal life in the woods and it soon realizes that its only way to survive is to be tamed and go back to the hunter.

The animated piece is a winner of the World Festival of Animated Film in the Bulgarian city of Varna and also of the 7th Cebu Int’l Film Festival in the Philippines.   

‘Are You Volleyball?!’ features a group of Arabic-speaking asylum seekers who try to make their way to the border of an English speaking country.

They get into a conflict with border guards every day up until a deaf-mute child becomes a catalyst for better communication between the two sides.

The short film has received more than 60 awards in Iran and at international festivals in less than a year.

The film has so far won awards such as Best Film Prize at the Al-Nahj Film Festival in Iraq, Best Film and Best Screenplay awards at the Short Film Competition section at the US Forum on Law, Culture & Society, Best Film at the BCN Sports Film Festival in Spain, Best Editor award at the Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest in Romania, Best Short Film Award at the Unknown Film Festival in Russia, and Best Short Film Award at the Changing Face International Film Festival in Australia.  

Changing Face International Film Festival in Australia runs the competition line on a monthly basis and the selected films of every month will vie at the annual competition of the event.

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