MUMBAI: Iranian cinematographer Shahriar Asadi has won the Best Cinematographer Award at the 2nd International Noah‘s Ark Film Festival in Russia.

He received the award for the Kazakhstan-Georgia production The Other Bank directed by George Ovashvili. The feature-length film was also granted the event‘s Award for the Best First Work of a Director in Full-Length Feature Film.

The Other Bank has been screened and awarded in countless international festivals such as the 2009 Paris Cinema and Seattle International Film Festival.

Iranian actor Hossein Yari received the 2009 festival‘s Best Actor Award for his acting in Mohammad-Ebrahim Moayyeri‘s White Sneakers.

Russia‘s 2009 International Noah‘s Ark Film Festival screened nine feature-length and 21 short films from 18 countries in its competition section.