24th Fajr International Film Festival
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24th Fajr International Film Festival
was held in Tehran
, Iran
from February 2nd to February 12th, 2006 (Bahman
12th-22nd, 1385 AP
), which is called Dahe-ye-Fajr in Iran
.
Fajr International Film Festival
The Fajr Film Festival or Fajr International Film Festival is Iran's annual film festival, held every February in Tehran.The festival, started in 1982, is under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture in Iran...
was held in Tehran
Tehran
Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
from February 2nd to February 12th, 2006 (Bahman
Bahman
Bahman may refer to:* Bahman, the Zoroastrian Amesha Spenta* Bahman, the 11th month of the year in Zoroastrian & Iranian calendars, named after the Zoroastrian concept* Kai Bahman, a mythological king of Iran...
12th-22nd, 1385 AP
Iranian calendar
The Iranian calendars or sometimes called Persian calendars are a succession of calendars invented or used for over two millennia in Greater Iran...
), which is called Dahe-ye-Fajr in Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
.
National Awards
- Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best film: In the Name of the Father - Ebrahim HatamikiaEbrahim Hatamikia-Biography:Ebrahim Hatamikia, who is internationally renowned for his role in the cinema of Iran in the 1990s, was born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran. He left the Art University where he studied script writing. He began his directing career with the film "The Identity" in 1986 and some short films and...
- Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize: Friday Afternoon - Mona Zandi HaghighiMona Zandi HaghighiMona Zandi is an Iranian film director and script writer.Mona Zandi was an assistant to renowned Persian film director, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.-External links:*...
- Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Experimental and Artistic Film: A Journey to Hidalo - Mojtaba Ra'ee
- Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Short Film: With Him - Naghi Nemati
International Awards
- Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Short Narrative Film to Rain is Falling, directed by Holger Ernst from GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. - Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Technical or Artistic Achievement to the film DownfallDownfall (film)Downfall is a 2004 German/Italian/Austrian epic war film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler's life in his Berlin bunker and Nazi Germany in 1945....
directed by Oliver HirschbiegelOliver HirschbiegelOliver Hirschbiegel is a German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the Oscar nominated Der Untergang.- Career :...
from Germany. - Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Performance to Mohammad Reza Foroutan for the film Slowly Directed by Maziar MiriMaziar MiriMaziar Miri is a renowned Iranian filmmaker.Maziar Miri graduated in editing, and started his career with making documentaries about Iran. He made his first short film in 1996, and worked for several years in the editing department of Iranian TV, channel 2. He made his debut feature film in 2000...
, Iran. - Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Script to Mani HaghighiMani HaghighiMani Haghighi is an Iranian filmmaker, screen writer and actor. He is the grandson of the writer and filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan.-Education:...
for Men at Work, Iran. - Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Direction to Gianni AmelioGianni AmelioGianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...
for The Keys to the HouseThe Keys to the HouseThe Keys to the House is a 2004 dramatic family film telling the story of a young father meeting his handicapped son for the first time and attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager...
, ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. - Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize to BashingBashing (film)is a 2005 film by Kobayashi Masahiro. It premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or.-Cast:* Fusako Urabe - Yuko* Nene Otsuka - Yuko's step mother* Ryûzô Tanaka - Yuko's father* Takayuki Katô - Ex-boyfriend...
, directed by Kobayashi Masahiro, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. - Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Film to Slowly, directed by Maziar MiriMaziar MiriMaziar Miri is a renowned Iranian filmmaker.Maziar Miri graduated in editing, and started his career with making documentaries about Iran. He made his first short film in 1996, and worked for several years in the editing department of Iranian TV, channel 2. He made his debut feature film in 2000...
, Iran.
Awards of Spiritual Cinema
- Crystal Simorgh Prize of Best Script for the film ZozoZozoZozo is a 2005 Swedish-Lebanese film about a Lebanese boy during the civil war, who gets separated from his family and ends up in Sweden. It was directed by Swedish-Lebanese director Josef Fares. The story is mostly inspired by Fares' real life immigration to Sweden during the war.The film was...
, directed by Josef FaresJosef FaresJosef Fares is a Crystal-Simorgh winning Swedish film director with Assyrian/Syriac origin. His brother is the actor Fares Fares, who has appeared in many of his films....
, SwedenSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. - Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Direction to Tae Hyung Im, director of the film Little Brother, Korea.
- Crystal Simorgh prize for Best Film to When Everybody was asleep, directed by Fereidoun Hassanpour, Iran.
Awards of Asian Cinema
- Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Script to Mitsuhiro MiharaMitsuhiro Mihara-Filmography:*真夏のビタミン *風の王国 *燃えよピンポン *絵里に首ったけ...
for the film The Village Album, Japan. - Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Direction to Ma LiwenMa LiwenMa Liwen is a Chinese film director. Ma has directed a handful of films during the 2000s, including 2005's You and Me, and two films in 2008, Lost and Found and Desires of the Heart.- Biography :...
, director of the film You and MeYou and Me (2005 film)You and Me is a 2005 Chinese film by writer-director Ma Liwen. The film, shot on a shoe-string budget, tells the story of a young woman who moves into an apartment run by a tough elderly woman. Their relationship, initially cold and hostile, soon develops into friendship over the course of four...
, ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
. - Crystal Simorgh prize for Best Film to In the Name of the Father, directed by Ebrahim HatamikiaEbrahim Hatamikia-Biography:Ebrahim Hatamikia, who is internationally renowned for his role in the cinema of Iran in the 1990s, was born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran. He left the Art University where he studied script writing. He began his directing career with the film "The Identity" in 1986 and some short films and...
, Iran.