Bangladeshi filmmaker Asif Islam’s directorial venture titled ‘Nirvana’ has bagged the Special Jury Award at the 46th Moscow International Film Festival.

The 46th Moscow International Film Festival was held from April 19 to 26.

The eight-day film festival featured 240 films from 56 countries. The awards ceremony of the festival was held on Friday in Moscow, Russia.

Asif Islam and the film’s actress Priyam Archi attended the film festival.

Asif confirmed the news in a post on his Facebook page.

He wrote, ‘We did it! Special Jury award for Bangladesh.’

Priyam Archi shared her reaction to winning the award in a video posted on her Facebook page.

She said, ‘Nirvana has won the Special Jury Award at the closing ceremony of MIFF. The film’s director Asif Islam has received the award.’

Besides, ‘Shame’, directed by Miguel Salgado and co-produced by Mexico and Qatar, won the Best Film Award and Iran’s Nahid Azizi Sedigh bagged the Best Director Award for her film titled ‘Cold Sigh’.

Yulia Trofimova’s directorial venture ‘Liar’ won the Silver Saint George award in the Russian premiere competition section.

Russian filmmaker Sergey Ursulyak was honoured with the MIFF award for an outstanding contribution to world cinema.

The Moscow International Film Festival was founded in 1935. It is the world’s second oldest film festival after the Venice International Film Festival.