International film festival concludes with 4 awards in Lahore

LAHORE: The third Edition of Asia Peace Film Festival concludes here at PILAC. More than 150 films selected from around the globe in the category of short films, documentary, animation and music videos.

This year, Asia Peace Film Festival presented a line up of 89 short films, 12 music videos, 28 short documentary, and 20 animated films.

A total of four awards for the best short film, animated film, documentary film, and music video were given during the event.

‘O father’ directed by Mahmood Sharif from Iran won the best short film award.
‘At Home’ directed by Arjanar Rebeta from the Philippines won the best documentary
award.
‘Pet men’ directed by Marzieh Abrar Paydar from Iran won the best animation award. ‘Scars Left Behind’ directed by Eren Ozsan from Turkey won the best music video award.

Jawad Sharif’s ‘Indus Blues’, a documentary that has won awards abroad for its depiction of fading folk musical art-forms in the region was screened on the last day of the festival including a performance by Sarangi maestro. The festival had special
screening of the short film ‘ The Elephant Bird’ by Amir Masood Soheili from Iran.

The festival also screened films from the best of Al-Nahj International Film Festival (Iraq) curated by the manager of the festival Mr. Hasanain Al Hani.

The festival also organized four sessions of policy dialogue during Film Conference on cinema, film culture, peace, and justice. Moreover, Film Production Master Classes were led by Mahera Umer, Jawad Sharif, Zafar Meraj and Ashraf Kakar on fundamentals of filmmaking.

Asia Peace Film Festival (APFF) is a multi-country consortium of film entities from Asian Countries. Since its inception in 2017, APFF has been a platform for new work from established filmmakers and discoveries from emerging voices in short film, documentary, animation and music videos. Initially, to commemorate the World Peace Day, the Asia Peace Film Festival 1st Edition was organized in Islamabad.