IRANIAN FILM-MAKER ADMIRES INDIA’S
PEACEFUL AND NON-VIOLENT CULTURE
The Iranian film
director Samira Makhmalbaf, whose film, "Five in the Afternoon"
won the Golden Peacock Award in the Asian Competition Section
of the recently concluded 34th International Film Festival
of India-2003, has sent a message as she was not present at the
closing ceremony of the festival. In her message, Samira while
admiring India’s profoundly peaceful and non-violent culture that
has even influenced Iran’s present day political culture, she
expressed that India’s Golden Peacock Prize belongs to all Iranians
and by Makhmalbaf family tradition she dedicated it to the Iranian
Cinema Museum.
She also presented
the cash prize of Rs. 5,00,000 to the Mother Teresa NGO active
in the expansion of human rights, especially women and children
in India.
