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Meanwhile, the San Sebastian International Film Festival handed the 'Silver Conch' award for best director to the young Iranian Reza .
*** An Interview with Marziye Meshkini, a Female Film Director 'The Day I Became a Woman', Marziye Meshkini's debut picture screened at Venice International Film Festival (Sept 2-9), depicts the position of women for whom their gender poses a social problem.
A. There are about 10 women film directors in Iran and none of them is married to a filmmaker.
The Jury of the Montreal awarded the Prize of Best Debut Feature presented in any section of the 2000 Montreal World Film Festival to the Iranian movie Daughters of the Sun by Mariam Shahriar (Iran) .........
Panahi's 'The Circle' Scoops Venice Festival's Golden Lion Another Iranian movie, 'The Day I Became a Woman', directed by Marziye Meshkini, is awarded the prize of the 'future cinema'.
"The Circle", a dark Iranian movie about the position of women won the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival (Sept 9) .
Two more movies by Iranian directors were screened at Mill Valley Film Festival in the United States (Sept 25-0ct 15).
In the international competition the jury awarded the following prizes: • Diploma of Honor to the film "Into the Night", directed by Klaus Haro from Finland "for its portrayal of the intimate relationship between two young people".