Iraqi Film "The Wood Man" Wins Gold Award at Tokyo Film Festival

Baghdad - INA 
 
The Iraqi feature film "The Wood Man" won the Gold Award for Best Asian Film at the Tokyo Film Awards.

The Iraqi expatriate artist Qutaiba Al-Janabi told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), today, Friday, "I am very happy that my movie (The Woodman) won the best film at the Tokyo Festival, which is written and directed by me," noting that "the film belongs to the fantasy that simulates a doll." The size of a human being made of wood is forced to leave his homeland in the forest, and his destinies intersect with a number of personalities to paint through his journey a picture and events from the mind and heart of all those who were forced to leave their homelands.

He added, "The film also won the jury prize at the Cairo Film Connection earlier, with the support of the Doha Film Institute," explaining that the film starred: Hana Hefter, Mihaly Balko, Montage Hugh Williams, and production by Ali Rahim.

The artist, Qutaiba Al-Janabi, was born in Baghdad and studied photography and cinematography in Budapest, Hungary. He worked as a producer and director for a number of television works and as a cinematographer for feature films. He directed and produced short documentaries, including “The Train, the Waste Land,” about the experience of the Iraqi artist, Nahida Al Ramah, and “The Man.” Who Doesn’t Show Silence” about the late artist Khalil Shawky, and “Reflecting the Light” about the late plastic artist Mahmoud Sabry, as well as the feature film “Departure from Baghdad,” which won first prize at the Dubai Film Festival, and also directed the experimental feature film “Stories of Passersby,” which won the award and number of prizes.