TEHRAN-- Winners of the sidelines sections at the 13th Ammar Popular Film Festival were announced on Tuesday evening.Top operates in the classifications of poetry, music, cartoon, illustration and poster were honored in a special ceremony at Tehrans Felestin Cinema.The Lantern for best poetry was awarded to a work by Mehdi Jahandar, while a piece by Mojtaba Allahverdi won the Lantern for finest music.

Berlin , a cartoon by Peyman Alishahi, and Mahnaz Saberpurs illustration Irans Daughter were granted.

A Partner in Blood by Amin Taqizadeh was selected as finest poster.The Ammar celebration was developed in 2010 by a number of Iranian innovative figures to honor movie and art products promoting subjects such as resistance, and transformation.

It was named after Ammar Yasir, a close companion of the Prophet Muhammad (S).

In a brief speech made throughout the awards ceremony, the celebration president Edgardo Robin, who is an Argentinean Muslim cleric, slammed the Western view on celebs.

In Argentina, someone is paid $200 million monthly for playing football; this is really dreadful.

In this circumstance, intellectuals are considered morons and football gamers and musicians are deemed heroes.

That is what the West does, stated Robin, who uses the name Soheil Asaad since his conversion to Shia Islam.

The West goes in a manner in which true heroes are forgotten and make-believe individuals are become heroes, while the Ammar celebration seeks to alter an ordinary individual into a hero and this is highly substantial, he added.The 13th edition of the Ammar celebration opened last Wednesday in Shiraz at Shah Cheragh, the shrine of Ahmad ibn Musa (AS), with a homage to the people, which were killed in an ISIS attack on the Shia site last October.About 2800 movies are contending in the different sections of the festival, which is being arranged at Felestin Cinema.

The winners of the official competition will be granted on Friday with a homage to Nader Talebzadeh, the previous president of the festival.Photo: A poster for the Ammar Popular Film Festival.MMS/ YAW