Iranian’s Debut Wins best film award at KIFF

Iranian’s Debut Wins best film award at KIFF. Iranian midwife-turned-film-maker Nahid Hasanzadeh‘s “Another Time” went on to win the Best Film by a Woman Director with a cash prize of Rs 51 lakh at the 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival.  Nahid was born in Mianeh in 1974. She qualified as a midwife from Tehran University in 1998 and went on to study film making at Tehran’s Iranian Young

Cinema Society.

Nahid’s profession of a midwife, she had also made some short films and documentaries.

Most of them dealt with the challenges women face in today’s society.

Before the screening of “Another Time”, Nahid had mentioned how her professional life had also inspired her to come up with the subject of her film.

True to her words, the first scene of her film opened with the delivery of a baby. “It was all real. She have an experience of delivering over 300 babies.

The themes evoked have a direct link with my profession and the everyday relationships I have with my female patients and especially with those most at risk,” she smiled and said about her debut feature film.

Choosing to work in movies wasn’t easy for Nahid.

Though there have been other female directors working in Iran, Nahid admits that the challenges of a female film-maker still remains.

As her first feature film, Nahid chose to narrate the complicated story of the relationship between a father and his daughter who had delivered a baby out of wedlock.