Cake, Salam win big at South Asian Film Festival.

LAHORE -- Asim Abbasi's family drama Cake and a biopic on Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam titled Salam have won awards at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal.

Aamina Sheikh, Sanam Saeed and Adnan Malik won award for Best Feature Fiction while Salam won Best Feature Documentary.

The festival announced the news on social media and wrote: 'Many thanks to you the audience who come out to support the festival and its films! We give out audience favourite prizes as well and here are the winners. For audience favourite best feature, the winner is CAKE The Film, the Oscar nominee from Pakistan. For audience favourite Best Documentary Feature the winner is SALAM: the film about the first Pakistani Muslim Nobel Laureate. And, finally, for audience favourite Best Short film, the winner is Devi: Goddess an LGBTQ-themed film. We hope to see you...

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