Iranian Film Wins Oscar for best animated short film” In the Shadow of the Cypress”
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Iranian Filmmakers Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi, won the best and first animated short film Oscar. “In the Shadow of the Cypress” is a 20- minute animated short film about a war veteran with a distinctive story.
This is the first Academy award won by Iranian animated short film and the third Iranian Oscar in the history of Iranian Film Industry.
The Iranian film industry also won Academy Oscar Awards for the best foreign language film in the year 2011 and 2016.