MUMBAI: Award-winning Iranian film Whistling under Water will take part in this year‘s Damascus International Film Festival in Syria.

Directed by Houshmand Varaei, the 15-minute film will participate in the competition section of the event that will run from 3 to 13 November in the Syrian capital.

Whistling under Water has been awarded in many international events including the Videoex Experimental Film and Video Festival in Switzerland.
 

A production of the Iran Film School, Varaei‘s 2009 production also won the first prize for best film and second prize for best director of the first Nowruz of Hamghadam Short Film Festival in Paris.

Varaei is a member of the Canadian Association for Photographic Art (CAPA) and the winner of Iran‘s 2006 Student Book of the Year Award.