Films from Iran sweep the awards

hyderabad: films from iran swept the awards at the 12th international film festival here on tuesday, while india bagged one. children of petroleum directed by ebrahim forouzesh won the golden elephant for the best feature film in the international competition. the silver elephant for the best director went to rassul sadr ameli for the iranian film girl in sneakers.the silver elephant in the asian panorama category was bagged by yet another iranian film child and the soldier directed by seyyed reza mir karimi. shangoul and mongoul directed by iraninans farkhondeh torabi and morteza ahadi won the silver elephant in the category best animation short film. from india, seema chakraborty won the special jury award for her role in ranu directed by shyamal karmakar.the child jury award, a golden plaque went to the film thomas the falconer directed by vaclav vorlicek. the goal directed by gul bahar singh and ra-tim-bum-castle directed by cao hamburger got a special mention from the child jury. speaking on the occasion, children's film society of india chairperson sai paranjpye said about two million children attended the festival, which included a three-day workshop on child rights and workshop on animation. the silver elephant for the best child artist went to dimitris alexandris for his role in the film canary yellow bicycle from greece. best non-fiction film silver elephant award went to media a film from the the czech republic directed by paval koutsky. the silver elephant for the best live action fiction short film went to german film lotte primaballerina directed by marc-andreas bochert.the other awards went to tsatsiki, mum and the policeman which bagged both the awards for best live action fiction feature film in the international competition and the critic's jury award by the international critic's jury.