Iranian filmmaker Mehdi Zamanpur Kiasari’s “Asak” won the award for best short documentary at the 15th edition of the Vienna Ethnocineca International Documentary Film Festival. “Asak”, which means a small hand-mill in the local dialect of southern Iran, is about the life of an 80-year-old blind man who lives in that area. He earns money by making handicrafts and utensils from stone. The documentary’s most remarkable feature is the spiritual ...