Two Iran films win awards at Morocco film festival

Iranian films ‘Daughter’ and ‘Starless Dreams’ have won awards at an international film festival in Morocco.

Iranian film ‘Daughter’ and acclaimed documentary ‘Starless Dreams’ have both brought home awards from the International Festival of Auteur Cinema in the Moroccan city of Rabat.

‘Daughter’ by Reza Mirkarimi received the film critics’ award, while Mehrdad Oskui’s ‘Starless Dreams’ won the audience award at the festival.

Mirkarimi’s feature film is about a family living in the southwestern Iranian port city of Abadan. The younger daughter tells her family that she is off to Tehran to see one of her best friends, who is leaving Iran for good. Despite her father’s advice to the contrary, she took a flight to Tehran. Her disobedience ignites a series of incidents that leads to too much hassle for the family.

‘Starless Dreams’ follows a group of under-18-year-old girls taken into a rehabilitation and detention center on the outskirts of Tehran for a variety of reasons ranging from drug dealing and trafficking to pick-pocketing and manslaughter.

The International Festival of Auteur Cinema in Rabat was held from October 27 to November 4.

The Moroccan event is dedicated to the cinematic authorship, a true cinema of art and thought in all forms; even those who destroy the clichés.

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