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Belgium festival awards Iran war drama

18 June 2011 18:46 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The 2011 edition of Belgium’s Millennium International Documentary Festival has awarded Molf-e Gand directed by Iranian filmmaker Mahmoud Rahmani, APA reports quoting Press TV.

The 53-minute film received the event’s Special Prize of the Jury for the most original and innovative film, Fars News Agency reported.

Dubbed the longest shot in Iranian cinema, the film provides a new perspective on the Iraq-Iran war through a narration by Mohammad Ghadirzadeh, who witnessed the war in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz.

The war drama was screened during the third edition of the festival which was held from June 8 to 14, 2011, in the capital city of Brussels.

Molf-e Gand has also been screened at the 2010 Munich Documentary Film Festival and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA).

Rahmani is internationally known for his social and political documentaries, such as The White Oil and Zero Degree Orbit.

His awarded movie My Mother, Oak made its international debut during the annual Munich Documentary Film Festival in May 2011.