FARS News Agency, Iran
Saturday
Iranian Feature to Vie at Varna Int'l Film Festival
TEHRAN (FNA)- "Yeva", a joint production of Iran and Armenia, directed by Iranian filmmaker Anahid Abad has made it into the final competition round at the Spectrum section of 27th International Film Festival in Varna, Bulgaria.
The 27th edition of International Film Festival in Varna will host the screening of Iranian feature "Yeva" in its Spectrum section.
Written and directed by Iranian-Armenian Anahid Abad, "Yeva" is the story of a young woman who is forced to flee Yerevan with her daughter Nareh. She would have to stand trial there because she allegedly killed her husband. Uncle Ruben and the remote village in Nagorno-Karabakh are her last chance to go into hiding. But the villagers recognize her from the days of war when she had cared for the wounded as a doctor at the front.
The film has received the Audience Choice Award at the 12th annual Pomegranate Film Festival (POM) in Canada.
It also managed to snatch the Best Film award at the 14th Rolan – International Film Festival for Children and Youth, held on 6-10 November 2018 in Yerevan, Armenia.
"Yeva" has recently received three nominations (best feature, best script and best director award) at the 21st Arpa International Film Festival (AIFF) in the United States.
The 27th International Film Festival in Varna is scheduled for 23 Aug. – 1 Sep. 2019 in Bulgaria. The festival title is "Love is folly". The IFF "Love is folly" is one of the most important art events not only for fashionable Varna but also for the life of the European cinema industry.
Iranian cinema has made great progress in the years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, to that extent that many Iranian films bring home numerous international awards every year and Iranian directors and their films are well known in all cultural venues across the globe.