'Starless Dreams' Screened at Budapest Festival

Date: 27 January 2018 - 21:27

News ID: ۴۹۳۵۷

TEHRAN (ISNA) – Iranian documentary "Starless Dreams” directed by Mehrdad Oskouei will be screened at the Budapest International Documentary Festival.

The 4th edition of Budapest International Documentary Festival (BIDF), which is being held from January 23rd to 28th in Hungary, hosts more than 40 documentaries in the competition category from Italy, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Spain, France, Croatia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Chile, the United Kingdom, Austria, the United States and Hungry.

The documentary is about a prison for teenage girls in Iran. In a setting that’s more rehab center than jailhouse, the girls — most of whom are there for drug-related offenses — gossip, pray, goof off, and argue.

Starless Dreams plunges the viewer into the lives of seven young teenage girls sharing temporary quarters at a rehabilitation and correction center on the outskirts of Tehran. As the New Year approaches, some hope to celebrate with their family, while many of them do not want to go home.

"Starless Dreams” has won awards such as "Amnesty International” from the 66th Berlin Film Festival, "True Vision Award” from the U.S. True False Festival as Best Documentary in 2016, Grand Prize and Prize of the best inspirational film of the United States Full Frame Festival, 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 edition of the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.