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\u201cAfrican Violets\u201d, Iranian director Mona Zandi-Haqiqi\u2019s drama that presents a new image of Iranian women, won two awards at the 25th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in France, the organizers announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The film won the High School Award, which is presented by a jury selected by Vesoul\u2019s Belin High School. The jury decides on the best fiction feature amidst a selection of movies shown for the very first time in France.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrican Violets\u201d also shared the audience award for a fiction film with \u201cWaiting for Sunset\u201d by Carlo Enciso Catu from the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Starring Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Reza Babak and Saeid Aqakhani, \u201cAfrican Violets\u201d is about a woman who chooses to look after her former husband who is suffering from an illness.<\/p>\n

In addition, \u201cRona, Azim\u2019s Mother\u201d, a co-production between Afghanistan and Iran, received the Grand Jury Award. The Tehran-based Afghan brothers Jamshid and Navid Mahmudi are the director and producer of the film whose story is set in Tehran.<\/p>\n

Starring Iranian actors Mohsen Tanabandeh and Mojtaba Pirzadeh, the film is about Azim, an Afghan refugee who works as a janitor in Tehran. While helping his mother and his brother\u2019s family plan to smuggle themselves into Germany, he feels betrayed by his brother when he abandons their mother.<\/p>\n

The organizers also handed the Golden Rickshaw Award to \u201cJinpa\u201d by Pema Tseden from China, and the special jury prize was given to \u201cSub-Zero Wind\u201d by Kim Yu-ri from South Korea.<\/p>\n

The audience award for documentary went to \u201cA Road for Xiao Jiang\u201d by Jean-Michel Corillion, a co-production between China and France.\/ Tehran times \/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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