Beirut International Film Festival Closing

The Beirut International Film festival for the year 2014 held its closing at Planète Abraj Cinemas on Thursday October 9^th 2014. The closing film was "A MOST WANTED MAN by Anton Corbijn," starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Homayoun Ershadi, Robin Wright and Grigoriy Dobrygin. The Synopsis is about "a tortured and near-dead half-Chechen, half-Russian man on the run arrives in the city's Islamic community desperate for help and looking to recover his late Russian father's ill-gotten fortune." The BIFF received the star and actor of the movie on the closing day; Mr Homayoun Ershadi. Iranian films, both in Kurdish and Farsi, won half of the ten awards delivered at the 14th edition of the Beirut International Film Festival.

The list of winners was as follows:

• BEST FEATURE FILM"The Last Winter" by Salem Salavati
• JURY PRIZE FEATURE FILM"Giraffada" by Rani Massalha
• BEST SCREENPLAY FEATURE FILM"The Last Winter" by Salem Salavati
• SGBL AWARD- AUDIENCE VOTE BEST FEATURE FILM"The President" by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• BEST DOCUMENTARY"Challat of Tunis" by Kaouther Ben Hania
• BEST DIRECTOR DOCUMENTARY"Challat of Tunis" by Kaouther Ben Hania
• SPECIAL JURY PRIZE DOCUMENTARY"Syria Inside" by Tamer Alawam
• BEST SHORT FILM"More Than Two Hours" by Ali Asgari
• SPECIAL JURY PRIZE SHORT FILM"With Thy Spirit" by Karim Rahbani
• SECOND BEST SHORT FILM"Ants Apartment" by Tofiq Amani
• THIRD BEST SHORT FILM"Butterflies" by Adnan Zandi & "Le Miroir" by Celine Kotaiche