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Wednesday 22 January 2014

Vahid Mousaian won Golden Dhow Award from the 16th Zanzibar International Film Festival

This is an Iranian film to made by iranian director film in Iran  (ISNA)- An Iranian film dubbed 'Golchehreh' and was directed by Vahid Mousaian won Golden Dhow Award from the 16th Zanzibar International Film Festival.

The African event hosted three Iranian movies in its competition line-up, including Nadarha 'The Poor' by Mohammad Reza Arab, Yeki Mikhad Bahat Harf Bezaneh (Someone Wants to Talk to You) by Manouchehr Hadi and 'Golchehreh' by Vahid Mousaian.

Secretary of the 31st International Fajr Film festival Mohammad Reza Abbasian received the award due to Mousaian's absence.

Also several other Iranian films have been shown in Zanzibar cities and islands concurrent with the festival.Based on a true story, Golchehreh features Taliban in Afghanistan and how they tried to destroy the country's national film archive.

The film has been honored at several festivals and has won the Grand Prix award of the 2011 Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) in Georgia and the Red Rose Award of the 4tJaipour International Film Festival (JIFF) in India.