Beijing, Sept 21, IRNA -- Iranian actress Hedye Tehrani won the Best Actress prize of Pyongyang International Film Festival of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) states.

Film makers from more than 40 countries participated at the festival with 98 long, short and feature films.

Three films from Iran took part in the festival. Saman Moqaddam's Party took part in the competition, while `Paradise Belongs to You' by Ali-Reza Davoodnejad and `Under the Moonlight' by Reza Mir-Karimi were screened in on the sidelines of the festival.

Iran's Deputy Culture Minister in cinematic affairs, Mohammad Hossein Pezeshk, as well as Iranian ambassador to Pyongyang, Jaladdin Namini Myanji attended the closing ceremony of the festival.