The 6th edition of Herat International Women’s Film Festival was held from November 16th to 19th, and Saeed Roustayi’s ‘Just 6.5′ won the Golden Earring Statue for Best Feature Narrative (World Cinema).
‘Hava, Maryam, Ayesha‘ by Afghani ‘Sahraa Karimi‘ and produced by Iranian ‘Katayoon Shahabi’ won the Golden Earring Statue for Best Feature Narrative (Women Cinema). Also, the Joint Award Certificate for the best actress went to ‘Sara Bahrami’ for ‘Axing’ made by ‘Behrouz Shoeibi’ and ‘The Visit’ by ‘Azadeh Mousavi’ won the Bronze Earring Statue for Best Short Narrative.
The ‘Tangle’ directed by ‘Maleha Gholamzadeh’ won the Bronze Earring Statue for Best Animation and ‘Khatemeh’ by Hadi and Mehdi Zarei won the Bronze Earrings Statue for Feature Documentary.
Afshin Hashemi’s film ‘Goodbye Shirazi Girl’ also received a certificate of appreciation for the different view of women in his film
The 6th edition of the Herat International Women’s Film Festival was held in two sections and this year, out of more than 3000 films submitted from 122 countries, 73 selected films from 27 countries entered the festival.
