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Ashkan Najafi won an award for the film "Nada" at a beach festival in Germany.

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Ashkan Najafi won an award for the film "Nada" at a beach festival in Germany.

Ashkan Najafi won an award for the film "Nada" at a beach festival in Germany.

Ashkan Najafi, an Iranian karbatalion and screenwriter living in Germany, won the award for the support of the new German cinema at the 60th edition of the Hoof Film Festival.

This award was given to him on Thursday, 22.10, in a ceremony at the release hall at the beach.

Najafi received this award for the film "Nada". This film tells the story of an Iranian translator who works at Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.

In the course of her work, this woman encounters a man who tortured her in the past and has now applied for asylum in Germany.

This confrontation puts the film's main character in front of a difficult choice between fulfilling his professional duty and trying to achieve justice.

Ashkan Najafi was born in Tehran in 1983.

Before entering the field of cinema, he worked as a journalist and mainly focused on the liberation and reformist movements in Iran.