Fajr International Film Festival

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The Fajr International Film Festival Poster 2007

The Fajr Film Festival or Fajr International Film Festival (Persian: جشنواره بین المللی فیلم فجر‎ or simply Persian: جشنواره فیلم فجر‎ ) is Iran's annual film festival, held every February in Tehran.

The festival, started in 1982, is under supervision of Ministry of Culture in Iran. It takes place every February in Iran on the anniversary of the Iranian revolution.

1 Competition Winners (2007)
2 Competition Winners (2006)
3 Competitions
4 Juries
5 Fajr International Film Festivals
6 External link(s)

[edit] Competition Winners (2007)

[edit] National

Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Film: “The Third Day” produced by Alireza Jalali
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Director: Mohammad-Hossein Latifi for “The Third Day” and Amir-Shahab Razavian for “Mina of the Silent City”
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Screenplay: “Mainline” jointly written by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Farid Mostafavi, Mohsen Abdolvahhab, and Naghmeh Samini
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Actor: Bahram Radan (“The Santur Player”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Actress: Baran Kowsari (“Mainline” and “The Third Day”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Supporting Actor: Afshin Hashemi (“Barefoot in Heaven”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Supporting Actress: Pante’a Bahram (“Eternal Kids”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Editor: Sepideh Abdolvahhab (“Mainline”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Cinematographer: Hamid Khozuei Abyaneh (“Barefoot in Heaven”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Composer: Kambiz Roshanravan (“Eternal Kids”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Makeup Artist: Mehrdad Mirkiani (“Mainline”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Sound Effects: Mohammadreza Delpak (“Rule of the Game”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Sound Recorder: Hassan Zahedi and Dariush Sadeqpur (“Barefoot in Heaven”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Costume and Stage Designer: Mohsen Ruzbehani (“The Third Day”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Special Effects: Mohsen Ruzbehani and Alaeddin Pajhan (“Rule of the Game”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best First Film Director: Bahram Tavakkoli (“Barefoot in Heaven”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Documentary: “Memoirs of a 75-Year-Old” directed by Mohammadreza Aslani
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Documentary Filmmaker: Masud Bakhshi (“Tehran Has No Pomegranates”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Short Film: “Weight of Being” directed by Hamid Bahrami

[edit] Spiritual section

Crystal Simorgh for best screenplay to “The Collector” directed by Feliks Falk
Crystal Simorgh for best director to “Dorm” by Songyos Sukmakanan
Crystal Simorgh for best film to “Barefoot in Heaven” by Bahram Tavakkoli

[edit] Inter-religious section

Crystal Simorgh to Parviz Sheikh Tadi’s “Robin”

[edit] Asian section

Crystal Simorgh for best screenplay to “Blue Swallow” directed by Yoon Jong-chan
Crystal Simorgh for best director to “Hi-Bi: Days of Fire” by Banmei Takahashi
Crystal Simorgh for best film to “The Night Bus” By Kiumars Purahmad

[edit] Competition Winners (2006)

[edit] International Awards

Crystal Simorgh prize for Best Short Narrative Film to Rain is Falling, directed by Holger Ernst from Germany.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Technical or Artistic Achievement to the film Downfall directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from Germany.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Performance to Mohammad Reza Foroutan for the film Slowly Directed by Maziar Miri, Iran.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Script to Mani Haqiqi for Men at Work, Iran.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Direction to Gianni Amelio for the film The Keys to the House, Italy.
Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize to Bashing, directed by Kobayashi Masahiro, Japan.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Film to Slowly, directed by Maziar Miri, Iran.

[edit] Awards of Spiritual Cinema

Crystal Simorgh Prize of Best Script for the film Zozo, directed by Josef Fares, Sweden.
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.

[edit] Awards of Asian Cinema

Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Script to Mitsuhiro Mihara for the film The Village Album, Japan.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Direction to Ma Liwen , director of the film You and Me, China.
Crystal Simorgh prize for Best Film to In the Name of the Father, directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia, Iran.