Iranian short film ‘Slaughter’, directed by Saman Hosseinpour and Ako Zandkarimi, won the best screenplay award of the 7th Parma Film and Music Festival held on September 23-29, in Parma, Italy.Read More
Iranian film ‘Breath’ received one of the most important awards of the Children’s Film Festival Seattle in the US. The jury members awarded the Global Zoom Prize to ‘Breath’ for promoting intercultural understanding in the best way possible, Mehr News Agency reported. The plot of the film begins in the late 1970s in Faridabad, a...Read More
Women accounted for 27.5 percent of all the Oscar nominees in 2019, a slight uptick from last year’s record-setting year, in which only 26.8 percent of the nominations went to women. Of the 225 individuals nominated this year in the 24 competitive categories, 62 women were named, based on a tally from TheWrap. That’s compared...Read More
Iranian film ‘Orange Days’ by Arash Lahooti won three awards at the 67th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany. Lahooti’s film received the Grand Newcomer Award, the main award of the festival, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Prize of the Jury of International Film Critics (Fipresci). Iranian actor Ali Mosaffa received the...Read More
ran’s feature film ‘I Am Iranian’, directed by Mohammadreza Ahanj, won the best film award in the fiction competition of Sport Movies & TV 2018 — the 36th Milano International FICTS Festival. The film stars retired Iranian wrestler and seven-time Asian champion, Alireza Heidari, portraying the story of his life, ifilmtv.ir reported. Other Iranian movies...Read More
An acclaimed Iranian producer and film editor Mastaneh Mohajer was selected to serve on the panel of jury of Duhok International Film Festival in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. American filmmaker Canan Gerede will head the panel of jury in the Kurdish Cinema section of the festival. The festival, which is held annually in the city of...Read More
The success of Iranian cinema in terms of winning the Best Foreign Language Film Award in Oscars competition was 8.69 percent to rank it in the fourth position in this category. It had 23 submissions in the 70 years of Academy Awards history, ISNA wrote. Czechoslovakia also ranks fourth with 23 submissions and winning two...Read More
Iranian actress Maral Farjad received the Best Supporting Actress award at US’ Love International Film Festival (FIFF) for her role in ‘Immortality’ directed by Mehdi Fard-Qaderi. In a ceremony in Los Angeles, the Iranian actress received the award in close competition with Meagan English (‘In the Wake of Ire’) and Jackie Nova (‘Art of Deception’),...Read More
