NewzVeteran Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi has won Best Film at the 31st Busan International Film Festival for “Midday Meal,” his simple, starkly powerful contemporary parable about a rural schoolteacher making difficult moral choices to ensure his students continue to receive a free lunch in the face of government cuts. Majidi received the prize from this […] 'Midday Meal' director Majid Majidi dedicated the award to the people of Iran, while Taiwan’s Lee Yun Chan won best director and Zhou Xun and Kashun Himeno took acting honors at the festival’s closing ceremony.
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