TEHRAN – “The Lonely Road” by Iranian filmmaker Mohammadreza Hafezi has picked as the best documentary at the 11th Jahorina Film Festival in Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

The documentary is about Aziz Mohammadi, a nomadic teacher who tries to help people and students who live in the mountains of the Lorestan region.
 
“The Lonely Road” won the award for best mid-length documentary at the 10th Cinema Verite, Iran’s major international festival for documentary cinema in December 2016.

The 11th edition of the Jahorina Film Festival, which focuses on documentary films on tourism and ecology, was held from September 20 to 24. 

Photo: Aziz Mohammadi is seen teaching nomad schoolchildren in a scene from “The Lonely Road”.

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