“Retouch”, “Gaze” from Iran honored at Zubroffka festival
TEHRAN. (Iranart) – Iranian movies “Retouch” and “Gaze” were honored at the Zubroffka International Short Film Festival in Poland on Sunday.
Directed by Kaveh Mazaheri, “Retouch” received the award for best film in the Whole Wide World Competition, the organizers announced.
The acclaimed film is about a young woman whose husband is trapped under a barbell during a workout, but she declines to save him and, consequently, he dies.
The jury called the film, “an original story in an efficient short film about conscience and retouching reality.”
“Gaze” by Farnush Samadi won an honorable mention in the same category.
The film tells the story of a woman who witnesses something happening in the bus on her way back from work, but she has to decide whether to reveal it or not.
The Zubroffka Grand Prix was presented to “Pussy” by Renata Gasiorowska from Poland while the award for best film in the Eastward Window competition went to “Invisibly” by Aron Szentpeteri from Hungary.
The jury was composed of Qiu Yang, Marian Crisan, Gunhild Enger, Izabela Plucinska and Grzegorz Brzozowski.