The director of the movie "Urmia Bride" Mohammad Ehsan from Tabriz won a prize at the festival in the U.S. (17th Rhode Island international film festival). The documentary of the Iranian film-maker - ethnic Azerbaijani - won the award in the category for the withdrawal of international cultural barriers (FLICKERS INTERNATIONAL VISION AWARD: Breaking down international cultural barriers through film).
According to the Union of Cinematographers of Azerbaijan, the film is devoted to the drying Lake Urmia in Iran, on the shores of which millions of ethnic Azerbaijanis live in compact.
The 30-minute film is constructed in the form of an imaginary dialogue with the lake, which tells a story on environmental issues.
The competitive festival was attended by about 200 films from the U.S. and another 65 countries.
Mohammad Ehsan is a famous documentarian, who directed such films as Rakhsh on Flesh (2003), The Lovers: The Victims (2004), Bewildered (2005), Tabriz: Images from the Forgotten World (2007), and Immortality (2012).
All these works are devoted to social issues. -16D-
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