Iranian short film ‘Retouch’ won two awards at the 57th Krakow Film Festival in Poland and was named for the second time to attend Academy Awards.

Directed by Kaveh Mazaheri, the flick won the Silver Dragon for the director of the best short fiction film at the Polish festival.

The film received the award for a poignant portrait of a woman who has to face the choice between life and death, freedom and captivity in the world where no rights exist.

Meanwhile, the panel of jury for the International Federation of Film Societies (FICC), which included Samiran Biswas (India), Eva Campos Suárez (Spain), Sylwia Hamerska (Poland), decided to grant the Don Quixote Award to Mazaheri’s ‘Retouch’ and the Special Mention to the film ‘The Origin of Trouble’ directed by Tessa Louise Pope (The Netherlands).

The Golden Horn for the director of the best film went to Pero Kvesić for ‘Dum Spiro Spero’ (Croatia), while the Silver Horn for the director of the best medium-length documentary film was presented to Audrius Stonys for ‘The Woman and the Glacier’ (joint Lithuania-Estonia production).

Golden Dragon for the director of the best film went to Matteo Gariglio for the film ‘En La Boca’ (Switzerland, Argentina).

The Iranian film was selected as the Best Narrative Short at the 16th Tribeca Film Festival in New York City and was named for participation in the Academy Awards. This is the second time that Mazaheri’s film has been introduced to Oscars.

‘Retouch’ won Crystal Simorgh for Best Short Film at Fajr Film Festival as well as grabbing the best short title from Iran Cinema Celebration.

Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest in Europe dedicated to documentary, animated and short feature films. Its core consists of four competitions of equal rank: Documentary film competition, short film competition, national competition and music documentary film competition DocFilmMusic.

This year, about 1,800 short feature films, 500 documentary films and 300 animated films were submitted to the competition. In the competition, 32 films were shown, including five from Poland.

The 57th Krakow Film Festival was held from May 28 through June 4 in Krakow, Poland.

/ Iran daily /