Iranian director and editor win awards at Chicago Film Festival with film about Molavi, great Iranian poet
Parstoday- Young Iranians won Best Director and Best Editing at the Chicago International Film Festival
Ramin Hosseinpour, Iranian director, writer and producer of the short film “Sculpture”, won the Best Director Award at the Crown Point International Film Festival (CPIFF). “Ehsan Vaghti” also won the Best Editing Award for this film.
According to Parstoday, this festival, which has completed its 45th edition, will award a cash prize and a trophy (trophy, i.e. Zafar award) to the winner of the year in the annual screening, which will be held in three months, and the winning films will be screened on cinema screens for a week in the city of Chicago.
The Iranian short documentary film “Sculpture” tells the biography of the famous Iranian poet Jalal al-Din Muḥammad Rumi called Mowlana or Molavi (1207-1273 AD) and Shams Tabrizi, one of the famous Iranian mystics (1185-1247 AD).