The festival showed 12 films in competition and some of them have received awards at the Cannes Film Festival, which shows that Halima's Path was awarded in strong competition, the director said on Sunday.

The film also received a prize of 6,000 euros.

The Mediterranean Film Festival was held from March 23 to 30 in the Moroccan city of Tetouan, under the high patronage of King Mohammed VI.

After its recent triumph at the Mons Film Festival in Belgium, where it also won the Grand Prix, Halima's Path has so far won eight awards at five international festivals.

After the festival in Morocco, the film was included in competition programs at a dozen more international festivals, including those in Cleveland, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle in the United States which take place in April and May.

Halima's Path tells the tragic but inspiring story of a good-natured Muslim woman Halima who tries, without success, to identify the remains of her son who was killed in the Bosnian War and buried in one of the many mass graves. She refuses to give blood for DNA analysis, hiding the fact that her son was secretly adopted and is not her biological son. She realises that the only solution to finally find her son's remains is to track down his biological mother who has not been seen for more than 20 years. But soon after finding her, a sequence of tragic events spirals out of control, with unexpected results.