‘Starless Dreams’ wins two Budapest awards
Iranian documentary ‘Starless Dreams’ won two best film awards from student jury and mature aged jury at the Budapest International Documentary Festival.
Directed by Mehrdad Oskouei, it participated in the 4th Budapest International Documentary Film Festival in Hungary competing with 40 documentaries from Italy, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Spain, France, Croatia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Chile, UK, Austria, the United States and Hungary, ISNA wrote.
The film follows a group of under 18-year-old girls taken into care for a variety of reasons ranging from drug dealing and trafficking to pick-pocketing and manslaughter. They gradually get to know what brought them there. Though bored with their incarcerated life they are, nevertheless, scared about what might happen to them once outside. As the New Year approaches they all hope to celebrate it with their families.
‘Starless Dreams’ has already won awards such as ‘Amnesty International’ at the 66th Berlin Film Festival, ‘True Vision Award’ at the US True False Festival as Best Documentary in 2016 as well as the Grand Prize and Prize of the best inspirational film of the United States Full Frame Festival.
Adding to its accolades, it also scooped the Grand Prize of the International Festival of Ethnographic Film Jean Rouch in France, the best feature documentary of the International Hot Springs Documentary Festival of the United States, the best documentary of the Festival of London and the best documentary of the 10th Asia-pacific Film Festival.