Cinema Organization of Iran Director Hojjatollah Ayyubi and Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) Director Mohammad\u2013Mehdi Tabatabainejad were among the officials participating at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Mehdi Asadi received the best short doc award for his \u201cFriday Carpet\u201d (highlighting the ritual of the carpet washing in Mashhad Ardehal), and the best mid-length doc award went to Mohammadreza Hafezi for \u201cPassageless Path\u201d.<\/p>\n

The best research award went to \u201c Fight Feast\u201d by Vahid Hosseini and Hojjat Taheri won the best cinematography award for \u201cBirds in Shadow\u201d.<\/p>\n

Next, Arash Lahuti was presented with the best editor award for \u201cLight Blue\u201d, and the best film ward went to \u201cZero to Stage\u201d by producer Mahtab Keramati.<\/p>\n

The jury special award was presented to \u201cNena\u201d by Mohammadreza Vatandust.<\/p>\n

The winners of the international section were also honored at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cBread and Tea\u201d by Sarah Kaskas (Lebanon) won the best short doc award and the best mid-length doc award was given to \u201cHamja\u201d by Mehdi Qanavati(Iran).<\/p>\n

The jury did not selected a best long documentary in the international section.<\/p>\n

However, the jury special award was given to \u201cUnder the Sun\u201d, a production of Russia, Germany, Czech Republic and North Korea by director Vitaly Mansky.<\/p>\n

The award-giving ceremony was followed by honoring Austrian specialist Professor Dr. Gerhard Freilinger, who appeared in Mostafa Razzaq-Karimi\u2019s \u201cMemories for All Seasons\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMemories for All Seasons\u201d is an acclaimed documentary that narrates the memories of a group of Iranian soldiers wounded by Iraqi chemical weapons during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.<\/p>\n

The 90-year-old professor, who is a specialist in plastic reconstructive surgery and treated chemically-wounded Iranian soldiers in those years, was surprised at the ceremony and said he did not expect to be honored.<\/p>\n

He expressed hope that there not be any more war and wished for more peace and friendship.\/ Tehran Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filmmaker Saeid Kart has received three awards including the best director award for his \u201cAvantage\u201d in the national competition section of the 10th Cinema Verite, Iran\u2019s major international festival for documentary cinema. \u201cAvantage\u201d also brought the best music award for Saba Nedai and the best sound award for Arash Qasemi, the organizers have announced. Winners…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19,370],"tags":[707,897,895,898,896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}