Axing by director Behruz Shoeibi was nominated in six categories, including best film, best director, best actor and best actress.
The film is about Mahsa, an addicted woman who thinks that her girl is dead but when she finds out that her daughter is alive and lives with her father (Mahsa’s ex-husband), she decides to take her back. This forces her to face her ex-husband and his new wife.
Axing has also won the AAFCCJ Award, which is presented by the Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists at the 16th Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan, Armenia on July 16.
It also won the audience award at the London Iranian Film Festival in November 2018.
Source: Tehran Times