Iranian filmmaker Houshmand Varaei's film has been awarded at the 2009 edition of the Open St. Petersburg Film Festival Beginning.
The 15-minute Whistling Under Water was granted the diploma 'in memory of Sergey Dobrotvorsky' for the fruitful search of sources of the impossible.
The festival's Grand Prix ECHO went to polish director Magnus von Horn's Echo while Ann Holmgren's Chambermaid (Norway), Matej Bobrik's Where The Sun Doesn't Rush (Poland) and Rishat Gilmetdinov's Law of Life (Russia) won the Best Fiction Film, the Best Documentary Film and the Best Animation Film awards respectively.
A production of Iran Film School, Varaei's short film participated in the Competition Program Fiction Films of the festival, which was held from Sep. 18 to 23 in Russia.
Varaei had also received the diploma for reverent attitude to a sound partition for his Kites Know No Chastity at the same festival last year.
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Irina Evteeva, Dmitry Dolinin, Nina Dvorko and Ludmila Nazaruk served on the festival's jury, selecting the best fiction, documentary and animation films.
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