MUMBAI: Kashmiri feature film Partav (which means influence) recently won an international award at Canada International Film Festival 2013. The film won the Award of Excellence in the feature film category.

Partav, the first Kashmiri film shot entirely in the 35mm digital format, is a story of a professor who forsakes everything in his life to devote himself to his literary pursuits. The film revolves around the ideology that "a life lived for others is a life worth living".

The Canada International Film Festival, held every year in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, brings the very best of world cinema to Canada from over 90 countries around the world.

The 2013 edition will be held on 3 and 6 April, 2013 at Edgewater Casino in downtown Vancouver.

This year‘s Festival Programme will showcase a wide variety of North American and International Feature Films to thought-provoking Shorts, Documentaries, Music Videos, Animations, Experimental Films, Student Films, a Screenplay Competition, and more.