Best Animation Award for Paper Flowers
The short animated film “Paper Flowers” directed by Ramak Amin Kazemi, and produced by Documentary, Experimental & Animation Film Center (DEFC), was honored with the Best Animation Award in the Main Short Competition of the 21st Within the Family International Festival of Family and Children's Films in Russia.
Since last year, Paper Flowers has been screened at several international film festivals, including the Girona Film Festival in Spain, the T-Short Animated Film Festival in Germany, and the Tampa Film Festival in the United States, among others. The film also received the Best Short Animation award at the 20th Kazan International Film Festival, held in Kazan, Russia.
Paper Flowers is the story of a successful writer whose latest work was a failure. To make up for this setback, she abandoned her hometown and family, and took refuge in a deserted mansion to write her next work in seclusion.
The closing ceremony of the Within the Family International Festival of Family and Children's Films was held on July 7 in Moscow, Russia, where Paper Flowers received the Best Animation Award.