TEHRAN -- Hamidreza Aliqolian, director of “Flamingo No. 13” has won the Silver Crow Pheasant Award at the 16th International Film Festival of Kerala (December 9 to 16).

Starring Iranian scholar and poet Shams Langerudi, Aliqolian took the best director award in addition to a cash prize of about $8,000, the festival website has reported.

The script for the 80-minute film has been written by poet Rasul Yunan who also acts in the film.

 

The film is about people who are exiled from their daily life in a far away place. One of the characters named Soleyman claims that he saw a flamingo with a bloody beak which belongs to distant lands, Yunan had once mentioned about the script.

Yunan had described the film’s professor (Shams Langerudi) as the “light of the tragic story” who opposes all injustice throughout the film and the flamingo is a symbol of overcoming limitations existing in the place of exile.

The Best Asian Film Award of the festival went to “At the End of It All” by Aditi Roy from Bangladesh.

The Best Debut Film Award was handed to “A Stone’s Throw Away” by Sebastian Hiriat from Mexico.

“The Future Lasts For Ever” by Ozcan Alper from Turkey won the Best Competition Film Award.

RM/YAW

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