Iranian ‘Kech’ wins short film award in Indian festival

The 9th edition of the Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) in India has presented an award to Iranian short film ‘Kech’.

The festival’s website recently announced that ‘Kech’, by Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Hassani has received the Best Short Film award of the International Competition – Worldwood International Panorama.

‘Kech’, meaning daughter in Kurdish language, narrates the story of a nurse who sacrifices herself to save a child from a warzone.

Iranian movie ‘Inversion’ by Behnam Behzadi also nabbed two awards at the Indian festival and the Best War and Peace Film award of the Feature Film Category went to ‘Arvand’ by Iranian filmmaker Pouria Azarbaijani.

The Jaipur International Film Festival, the world's fastest growing film festival, is held every year in January or February in Jaipur, India.

According to festival announcement forums, “Launched in January 2009, Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) became expanding establishing name in organizing world film festival every year in Rajasthan.”

The purpose of this film festival is to promote new movie makers, exchange of knowledge, information, ideas and culture between India and other nations in context of their social and cultural ethos, the forums also note.

The 9th edition of the Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) was held on January 7-11, 2017.

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