Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s latest feature, Three Faces, was the winner of the Best Film Award at the 55^th International Antalya Film Festival, which ran from 29 September-5 October. The closing ceremony took place on Friday at Antalya’s Glass Pyramid.

The international jury, headed up by last year’s Antalya winner, Chinese director Vivian Qu, and comprising Romanian director Cãlin Peter Netzer, Italian novelist-scriptwriter Maurizio Braucci, CEO of the Doha Film Institute Fatma Al Remaihi and Turkish actress Tuba Ünsal, handed the 320,000 Turkish lira (€45,000) prize to Three Faces’ leading actress Behnaz Jafari, as Panahi has not been allowed to travel outside Iran for the past eight years.

This year’s Palme d'Or winner, the Japanese film Shoplifters, received the Best Director Award for Hirokazu Kore-eda, and the 155,000 lira (€22,000) prize was picked up by the movie's lead actor, Lily Franky. The acting awards also went to Cannes winners, with Best Actor being handed to Syrian refugee boy Zain Al Rafeea, who stars in Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum [+lire aussi :
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Turkish cinematographer Olcay Oğuz received the Behlül Dal Award for Emerging Turkish Talent for his work “with such delicacy and taste in difficult conditions”, for Mustafa Karadeniz’s Planetree, which had its world premiere at Antalya. The audience plumped for Birds of Passage [+lire aussi :
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Finally, Turkish comedian Cem Yılmaz was crowned with the Honorary Orange Lifetime Achievement Award, while American actor Eric Roberts and acclaimed Arabesque singer and actor İbrahim Tatlıses received Antalya’s Honorary Awards.

Mike Downey, artistic director of the International Antalya Film Festival, stated: “I am delighted that such a high-level jury has chosen to honour a number of very important works of art which are underpinned by a profound sense of morality and social justice. The prizes reflect some of the key issues facing the world today in works by some of the very best practitioners of cinematic art from across the globe.”

Here is the complete list of winners at the 55^th International Antalya Film Festival:

Best Film
Three Faces - Jafar Panahi (Iran)

Best Director
Hirokazu Koreeda - Shoplifters (Japan)

Best Actor
Zain Al Rafeea - Capernaum [+lire aussi :
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Best Actress
Samal Yeslyamova - Ayka [+lire aussi :
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Special Jury Prize
Kailash - Derek Doneen (USA)

Behlül Dal Award for Emerging Turkish Talent
Olcay Oğuz - Planetree (Turkey)

Dr Avni Tolunay Audience Award
Birds of Passage [+lire aussi :
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Youth Jury Award
Capernaum - Nadine Labaki

Lifetime Achievement Award
Cem Yılmaz

Honorary Award
Eric Roberts

Honorary Award 
İbrahim Tatlıses