"Won't we go to funfair?" No matter where you live on this planet, life is not easy when you have no money. This is the great struggle with humanity, as we still haven't been able to solve this problem for all. Funfair is an award-winning short film from the streets of Tehran, Iran made by filmmaker Kaveh Mazaheri. This originally premiered in 2019 and he went on to debut his very first feature, titled Botox, in 2020. The film won a Special Mention for Best International Short at Palm Springs Shortfest 2020. After years of waiting and playing on the festival circuit, it's available to watch online. In Funfair, Majid is a financially struggling man who comes up with a ploy in order to better the life of his wife Sarah - pushing her in front of a car to collect the insurance money. Starring Soroush Saeidi, Sonia Sanjari, and Artin Rabiei. This...
- 8/17/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A Hero was the big winner at the 21st Hafez Awards, Iran’s primary national screen awards ceremony. Scroll down for the full list of winners across film and TV.
The latest film from Asghar Farhadi took home Best Motion Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (both for Farhadi), Best Actor for Amir Jadidi (who shared the prize with Peyman Maadi of Walnut Tree), and Best Editor (Hayedeh Safiyari).
A Hero is Iran’s Oscar entry this year, with Farhadi having scooped the Academy prize on two previous occasions for The Salesman and A Separation.
Further winners at this year’s Hafez Awards included Pardis Ahmadieh for Toman and Susan Parvar for Botox, who shared the Best Actress prize, and Morteza Najafi who won Best Cinematography for Toman. Producer and actor Ali Sartipi was presented with a Special Individual Achievement prize while Bahman and Bahram Ark’s Skin was given the Abbas Kiarostami Memorial Medal.
The latest film from Asghar Farhadi took home Best Motion Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (both for Farhadi), Best Actor for Amir Jadidi (who shared the prize with Peyman Maadi of Walnut Tree), and Best Editor (Hayedeh Safiyari).
A Hero is Iran’s Oscar entry this year, with Farhadi having scooped the Academy prize on two previous occasions for The Salesman and A Separation.
Further winners at this year’s Hafez Awards included Pardis Ahmadieh for Toman and Susan Parvar for Botox, who shared the Best Actress prize, and Morteza Najafi who won Best Cinematography for Toman. Producer and actor Ali Sartipi was presented with a Special Individual Achievement prize while Bahman and Bahram Ark’s Skin was given the Abbas Kiarostami Memorial Medal.
- 11/23/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The 38th edition of the festival unspooled online and resulted in prizes for Iranian director Kaveh Mazaheri’s film and Fernanda Valadez’s Mexican-Spanish co-production. The 38th edition of the Torino Film Festival, a nine-day programme consisting of 133 films and a jam-packed schedule of sidebar events, which was directed by Stefano Francia di Celle and unspooled entirely online this year, came to an end on Saturday 28 November with the announcement of the winning film Botox by Kaveh Mazaheri. “We managed to pull off the not so easy task of finding a solution which would allow the festival to take place, whilst also protecting its identity, despite the extremely challenging circumstances we found ourselves in", enthused Enzo Ghigo, the chairman of Turin’s National Film Museum which organises and managed the festival. In addition to naming Botox Best Film and treating it to the Best Screenplay accolade, the jury composed of Waad.
- 11/30/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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