A Walnut Tree, a documentary by Pakistan's Ammar Aziz, won the Ram
Bahadur Trophy in the Film SouthAsia 2015. The regional documentary
festival concluded in Lalitpur on Sunday. The documentary also re-
ceived a purse of USD 2,000 as the price.
The documentary presents plights of people who were forced to live as
refugees due to the fight between Pakistani army and the Taliban. It is a
documentation of sweet past, unsafe present and bleak future of a fam-
ily, said the organisers. Chief Guest of the event, Indian movie director
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, presented the award at the ceremony today.
the runner up in the competition.
Drawing the Tiger by Amy Benson, Ramyata Limbu (Nepal) won
the UNICEF Award while on and off the Records by Pratik
Biswas (India) received the Debut Award.
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