Zandi-Haqiqi’s debut film “Friday Evening” is about a woman called Sogand and her son Omid, who are shunned by her family and thus experience hard times.
“Friday Evening” received the Special Jury Prize of the International Women’s Film Festival in Cologne last October.
Zandi-Haqiqi had previously won the Best First Film Director Award and the Special Jury Prize in the Iranian Films Section of the 24th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran last January.
South Korean filmmaker Kim Tae-yong’s “Family Ties” won the festival’s Golden Alexander for the best feature film.
In addition, Polish director Slawomir Fabicki won the festival’s best director award for “Retrieval”.
Christine Vachon (producer, USA), Pierre Rissient (director, France), Katia Lund (director, Brazil), Diego Galan (film critic, Spain), Mogens Rukov (screenwriter, Denmark), Xu Jinglei (actress, China), and Lefteris Voyatzis (actor, Greece) were the members of the jury of the ten-day festival.
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