Ammar fest honors martyr mother with gloves

Iran-based Ammar Popular Film Festival has presented an award to mother of a martyr in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ammar fest’s public relations office said Wednesday in a press release that the honoring ceremony was held in the country’s capital, Sarajevo, with Iranian officials and cultural figures in attendance.

The lady whose son was martyred during the Bosnian war in the 1990s was presented with the award titled ‘Granny Esmat’s Gloves’ which the fest gives to activists in the cultural front of the Islamic Revolution.

This comes as Iran is working on a fiction feature about the Bosnian war with the tentative title 'Wind Song'.

A report said the honored mother in the event is featured in this flick.

The Ammar Popular Film Festival goes against promotion of “individualism and extreme enjoyment without caring about the society's troubles and other human suppression,” the event’s official website noted.

The festival also enjoys an international version (AIPFF), which aims “to raise real awareness and responsibility among the general public,” the AIPFF website read, adding, "the event’s mission is to create an atmosphere in which independent filmmakers and thinkers can gather together."

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