ISFAHAN (Mehr News Agency) -- Winners of the 18th Isfahan International Festival of Film and Video for Children and Young Adults, held on October 2-8 in the historical city, was announced on Wednesday night. Organizers presented their Golden Butterflies to the winners of different sections of the festival as follows: *Iranian Cinema Competition Best Short Film: “No Response to Paging” by Nima Tarokh Best Short Animation: “Inventions and Discoveries of Archimedes” by Mahin Javaherian Best Short Video: “Disturbance for Being a Boy” by Jamil Rostami Best Director of Feature-Length Video: Fereydoun Hassanpour for “Sunflower Field” *Iranian Cinema Juries’ Special Prize Plaque of Honor for Alireza Vazirian for “Again Rain” Best Child Actress: Negin Habibi for “Negin and Me Dot Com” Best Child Actor: Amir Khorshidi for “Childish” Best Short Film: “The White Wings” by Abdollah Alimorad Best Director: Abdorrassoul Gelin for “Heaven Is a Different Place” *International Competition Section for Films Plaque of Honor for “Insects” by Mikhail Aldashin from Russia Plaque of Honor for “The Boy who Wanted to Be a Bear” by Jannik Hastrup joint production of France and Denmark Plaque of Honor for “The White Wings” by Abdollah Alimorad from Iran Juries’ Special Prize for Philip Mevil the French director of “Butterfly” Best Short Film: “Again Rain” by Ali Vazirian from Iran Best Short Animation: “Mahsa” by Bijan Mirbaqeri Best Actor: Fredric Christian Johnson for “Someone Like Huder” from Denmark Best Director: Khosro Ma’soumi for “Killing Lovers” form Iran Best Film: “Elina” produced by Anders Landestrom and Charlo Tanovard joint production of Sweden and Finland * International Competition Section for Videos Best Director: Nima Tarokh for “No Response to Paging” from Iran Best Video: “Nut & Screw” produced by Oliver Fing from Germany * Children’s Selected Films Best Film: Negin and Me Dot Com” by Hossein Qana’at and “My Shoes With Cricket” by Shapour Qarib *Selected Films of the Iranian Association for Children’s and Young Adults’ Cinema Best Screenplay: Hossein Qana’at for “Negin and Me Dot com” Best Director: Khosro Ma’soumi for “Killing Lovers” Best Film: “Negin and Me Dot Com” produced by Alireza Shoja’nouri

The juries of the festival presented their special prize to the producer of the Iranian animation “Sun of Egypt,” Nader Yaghmaian.

A number of contenders from Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, the U.S., India, Sweden, Finland, Norway, China, and Saudi Arabia participated in the seven-day cinematic event.