Dutch festival cool with Iranian documentary “Last Days of Winter”

TEHRAN,Nov. 28 (MNA) -- Iranian documentary “The Last Days of Winter” has won the BlackBerry Award at the 24th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Directed by Mehrdad Oskuii, the film is a portrait of seven Iranian boys in a youth detention center, talking candidly about their lives. The jury called the documentary “a heart warming and genuine film,” in a statement published on the website of the festival. “The interaction between filmmaker and the characters is straight forward and humorous, but most of all shows us the strength and honesty of the boys,” the jury added. The South Korean film “Planet of Snail”, on the everyday life of deaf and blind Young-Chan and the love of his life Soon-Ho, received the IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary. The Special Jury Award went to “5 Broken Cameras”, about a Palestinian village resisting the encroachment of Jewish settlements.