Tehran, Oct 20, IRNA – Iranian movie 'The Clown' directed by Homayoun Ghanizadeh received three awards in the 2019 Warsaw International Film Festival underway in Poland.

The movie was granted the award for best movie, best director and Special Jury Award.

"Established in 1985, the Warsaw Film Festival joined in 2009 the elite group of events recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (www.fiapf.org) as international film festivals - next to Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary, Tokyo, Moscow, Mar del Plata, Montreal, Shanghai, Cairo, Goa, and Tallinn," according to WFF official website.

"WFF audiences - usually as the first people in Poland - could discover American independent cinema as well as Asian, Latin American, Iranian, Russian and Romanian cinema," it added.

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