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

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Iranian exile Abdolreza Kahani’s “Mortician” took top honors at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, taking the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence on Tuesday night.  The film, shot in Canada on an iPhone, is charged with emotion and harsh consequences of trying to live on one’s own terms. “I was once […]