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Crystal Simorgh For Best Adapted Screenplay
Crystal Simorgh for Best Screenplay is an award presented annually by the Fajr International Film Festival held in Iran. Winners and nominees Most wins and nominations Crystal Simorgh for Best Adapted Screenplay Crystal Simorgh for Best Adapted Screenplay is an award which established in 2006 but only awarded three times in 2009, 2010 and 2012. Nominations of this award were not announced. Winners Notes References {{Fajr International Film Festival Screenplay ''ScreenPlay'' is a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993. Background After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, fe ... Screenwriting awards for film ...
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Fajr International Film Festival
Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. The festival is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. It takes place on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The awards are the Iranian equivalent to the American Academy Awards. The festival has been promoted locally and internationally through television, radio and webinars; speakers have come from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Organizations contributing to the event have included the Farabi Cinema Foundation, Iran film foundation, Press TV, HispanTV and Iran's multi-lingual film channel IFilm. From 2015, the festival has been separated into a national festival in February, which is notable for premieres of the most important domestic movies, and an international one, held in Ap ...
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The Lodgers (1987 Film)
''The Tenants'' ( fa, اجاره‌نشین‌ها, italic=yes, translit=Ejāre-nešinhā; ''Ejareh-Nesheenha'') is a 1987 Persian comedy film directed by Dariush Mehrjui. It has been widely acclaimed as the best Iranian comedy film of the 1980s. Plot summary The film is about an apartment in Tehran and its various tenants. Cast *Ezzatolah Entezami *Hamideh Kheirabadi *Akbar Abdi *Farimah Farjami * Iraj Rad *Reza Rooygari *Siavosh Tahmoures *Hossein Sarshar Hussein, Hussain, Hossein, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein or Husain (; ar, حُسَيْن ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-i-N ( ar, ح س ی ن, link=no), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", ... Referenceson IranAct External links * * 1987 films 1980s Persian-language films 1987 comedy-drama films Films set in Iran Iranian comedy-drama films Films directed by Dariush Mehrjui {{1980s-comedy-film-stub ...
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8th Fajr International Film Festival
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the firs ...
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Grand Cinema
''Grand Cinema'' is a 1989 Iranian comedy film directed by Hassan Hedayat. It was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * Ebrahim Abadi * Akbar Abdi * Fereydoon Aboo Zia * Morteza Ahmadi * Hosein Amirfazli * Mahmoud Basiri * Akbar Doodkar * Maliheh Ebrahimi * Ezzatolah Entezami Ezzatolah Entezami ( fa, عزت‌الله انتظامی, 21 June 1924 – 17 August 2018) was an Iranian actor. Career Ezzatolah Entezami started his career on stage in 1941 and graduated from theatre and cinema school in Hanover, Germany in ... as Aghaiev * Nasser Laghayi * Yoosef Samad Zadeh References External links * 1989 films 1989 comedy films Iranian comedy films 1980s Persian-language films {{1980s-comedy-film-stub ...
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The Scout (1989 Film)
''The Scout'' ( fa, دیده‌بان, Deedeh-ban) is a 1989 film by the Iranian director Ebrahim Hatamikia Ibrahim (also spelled Ibraheem) ( ar, إبراهيم, ) is the Arabic name of the prophet and patriarch Abraham and one of Allah's messengers in the Quran. It is a common first name and surname among Muslims and Arab Christians, a cognate of t .... Hatamikia also scripted the film, which starred Gholamreza Ali Akbari and Mehrdad Solaymani. Set during the Iran-Iraq war, it is an example of Sacred Defense cinema. Plot Cast References External links * 1989 films Films directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia Iran–Iraq War films Iranian war drama films 1990s war drama films {{Iran-film-stub ...
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Eye Of The Hurricane (1989 Film)
''Eye of the Hurricane'' () is a 1989 film by the Iranian director Masoud Jafari Jozani. The film was set during World War II, during the occupation of Iran by the Allied Army. It stars actors Ezzatolah Entezami, Majid Mozaffari, Ataollah Zahed, and Ahmad Hashemi. The film won the Crystal Simorgh for best film at the Fajr International Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. T .... References External links * 1980s Persian-language films Iranian war drama films 1989 films Crystal Simorgh for Best Film winners World War II films Allies of World War II {{Iran-film-stub ...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( fa, محسن مخملباف, ''Mohsen Makhmalbaaf''; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include '' Kandahar''; his latest documentary is '' The Gardener'' and latest feature '' The President''. Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years. The director belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema. '' Time'' selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film '' Kandahar'' as one of the top 100 films of all time. In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival. Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Life Makhmalbaf was born in Tehran on May 29, 1957. At the age of 15, he became involved in a ...
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The Cyclist
''The Cyclist'' ( fa, بايسيكلران ''Bicycleran'') is a 1987 Iranian sports-drama film written and directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, starring Moharram Zaynalzadeh as Abu Ahmed. Plot Nasim, a poor Afghan refugee in Pakistan, gives a demonstration in his town's square where he rides his bicycle without stopping for seven days and seven nights, with the aim of raising money for life-saving surgery for his dying wife. In the end, even after seven days, he continues to pedal endlessly, too fatigued to hear his son's and the crowd's pleas to get off his bicycle. One scholar analyses the film as an allegory which parallels the exploitation that Afghan refugees suffer from in Iran and from which they are unable to escape. Accolades In 1991 the film won the best narrative film award in the Hawaii International Film Festival The Hawai'i International Film Festival (HIFF) is an annual film festival held in the United States state of Hawaii. HIFF has a focus on Asian-Pacific cinema ...
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7th Fajr International Film Festival
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as Symbolism of the Number 7, highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the Brahmi numerals, beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit m ...
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6th Fajr International Film Festival
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a c ...
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Behrouz Afkhami
Behrouz Afkhami ( fa, بهروز افخمی; born October 24, 1956) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He is known for a style that utilizes point of view camera techniques to portray stories of human drama. He was also member of the Iranian Parliament from 2000 to 2004. He was the host of the third series of the television program, ''Haft''. Career and life Behrouz Afkhami has been teaching script writing, directing and editing both privately and in universities since 1989. Filmography * '' Azar, Shahdokht Parviz and Others'', 2014, 114 minutes, Super 35 Millimeter * '' Saint Pertersburg'', 2010, 130 minutes, Super 35 Millimeter * ''Black Noise'', 2011, 85 minutes * ''The Son of Dawn'', 2006–2009, 110 minutes, Super 35 Millimeter * ''The River's End'', 2004, 98 minutes, Super 35 Millimeter. ''Gavkhouni'' was screened at the Toronto, Brisbane, and Cannes film festivals. It won the South Korean Movie Award and the Catholic Church Award at Brisbane. * ''Hemlock'', 200 ...
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Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( fa, عباس کیارستمی ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the '' Koker'' trilogy (1987–1994), ''Close-Up'' (1990), '' The Wind Will Carry Us'' (1999), and ''Taste of Cherry'' (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In later works, ''Certified Copy'' (2010) and ''Like Someone in Love'' (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. His films ''Where Is the Friend's Home?'' (1987), ''Close-Up'', and ''The Wind Will Carry Us'' were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. ''Close-Up'' was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial '' Sight ...
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