Abdolreza Kahani’s ‘Mortician’ Takes Top Prize At Edinburgh

‘Mortician’ Tops Edinburgh Film Festival as Event Balances Discovery, Retrospectives and Industry Debate

EIFF 2025 mixed discovery with cinephilic nostalgia, with attractive industry talks, which remained off-limits to the press.

Abdolreza Kahani’s ‘Mortician’ Takes Top Prize At Edinburgh

Abdolreza Kahani’s Mortician has won the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, the top prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival.  The award comes with a £50,000 cash prize and is decided by an audience vote.  The film follows a reclusive mortician who faces an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding. Mortician was […]