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Abdolreza Kahani’s Mortician has won the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, the top prize at the Edinburgh ...

Iranian exile Abdolreza Kahani’s “Mortician” took top honors at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, taking the Sean Connery ...

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