Golshifteh Farahani Won Best Actress in New Horizons In Abu Dhabi Film Festival (2012)

19.10.2012

 - On Friday night, the Abu Dhabi Film Festival announced the winners of the 2012 Black Pearl Awards for the feature-length films in its programme. Araf/Somewhere in Between, the latest drama from Turkish director Yeşim Ustaoğlu, won the Black Pearl Award in the Narrative Competition. A Respectable Family, from Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakshi, won the Black Pearl Award in the New Horizons Competition. A World Not Ours, Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel’s meditation about growing up in a refugee camp in Lebanon, won the Black Pearl Award in the Documentary Competition.

Iranian star Golshifteh Farahani won Best Actress in New Horizons for her role in Afghani director Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone.

Interview with Golshifteh Farahani - ADFF12 from Abu Dhabi Film Festival on Vimeo.