The 10th Resistance Film Festival was held after a three-year gap from the 9th. While the festival was traditionally held every two years, it apparently became a triennial event in the 10th season, and was held with a one-year delay, in December 2005. The 10th season of the Resistance Film Festival also saw a change in the “director”; Mohammad Reza Sharafeddin, who was known as a producer and special effects director in cinema, was the director of this event. Apparently, the change in the director did not give the 10th Resistance Film Festival any special prominence compared to its previous edition.
۱۴ works from Iranian cinema were screened during this period, with films such as “The Madman Has Escaped the Cage,” “Gilaneh,” and “Duel” being among the most famous and enduring. Also, works such as “Naghmeh,” “Ishk Sarma,” or “Khodahafez Rafiq” by Abolghasem Talebi, Azizollah Hamidnejad, and Behzad Behzadpour also had a fresh look at war cinema in terms of form and content.
From this period, it is easy to feel that filmmakers are looking for new narratives of the war and in this way they have also taken up surreal cinema in order to create a new look in such films. Goodbye, Friend, plays with the theme of romantic nostalgia for the martyrs of the Sacred Defense, and Naghmeh wants to portray the romantic life of a chemical warfare veteran; Tears of Cold depicts love and enmity amidst the cold of the mountains, as if in these years filmmakers were looking for a connection between love and defense.
On the other hand, some filmmakers paid attention to the legacy of the war and its mementos, from the lost gold of a duel to the pain of Gilan. There was a lot of criticism at the time that some of these films were anti-war, but history has proven that every film made on this subject has something to say and defend the 8 years of sacred defense, defending the resistance that the Iranian people had during the 8 years, and this defense had different expressive and visual angles, with each filmmaker presenting an angle of this war according to their taste.
It goes without saying that the international section is still empty in this festival, a section that opened its place in two stages but could not or was not allowed to continue its life.
Selection Board and Jury
– Cinematic Section:
“Hassan Hassandoost” Editor “Mojtaba Raei” Director “Seyed Mehdi Shojaei” Storyteller and Journalist “Majid Majidi” Screenwriter, Producer and Director “Reza Mirkarimi” Writer and Director
-Video:
“Abdol Hassan Barzidhe” Writer and Director “Saeed Hajimiri” Director, Producer and Screenwriter “Hossein Zandbaf” Director, Producer and Editor “Mohammad Taghi Fahim” Critic “Mohammad Reza Honarmand” Director and Screenwriter
-Documentary:
Jury Board: “Mohammad Afrideh” Producer “Mahmoud Arbabi” Cultural Expert “Morteza Sarhangi” Writer “Bijan Nobaveh Vatan” Cultural Expert “Nader Talebzadeh” Cultural Expert
Selection Board: “Mostafa Razaq Karimi” Director of the film “Mahmoud Zendenam” Producer and Cultural Expert “Ahmad Zabeti” Jahromi” Documentary Producer and Editor “Ebrahim Kayhani” Documentary Producer and Editor “Nasir Mozhi” Documentary Producer
-Golden Pen:
“Hossein Torabi” Documentary Producer “Farhad Tohidi” Screenwriter “Hossein Khorshidi” Screenwriter “Mehdi Sajjadechi” Screenwriter “Morteza Sarhangi” Writer “Reza Maghsoudi” Screenwriter
*The Golden Pen section is one of the innovations of this period that belonged to the judging of the plot and screenplay. Of course, the film criticism and articles section was removed in this period, which if the reason for its removal was this “Golden Pen” section, it was an unwise decision, because they are unrelated and contradictory to each other, and if the reason was not this, then it was even more wrong.
Winners:
Iranian Cinema / (Film)
Best Film: “Father’s Farm” produced by Habibollah Kaseshaz
Best Director: Ahmadreza Darvish for the film “Duel”
Best Screenplay: Azizollah Hamidnejad for writing the screenplay for “Cold Tears”
Special Award for Acting: Fatemeh Motamed-Aria for the film “Gilaneh”
Special Jury Prize for the film “Father’s Farm” directed by Rasoul Malagholipour
Special Jury Prize for the film “Cold Tears” directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Special Jury Prize for the film “Cold Tears” directed by Azizollah Hamidnejad
Diploma of Honor for the film “Naghmeh” directed by Abolghasem Talebi
Diploma of Honor for the film “Border Film” for Life directed by Reza Azimian
Diploma of Honor for the film “A Madman Jumped Out of the Cage” directed by Ahmadreza Motamedi
(Film) Video)
Best Director: Kambiz Kashfi for the film “The Voice of God’s Footsteps”
Best Screenplay: Kambiz Kashfi for the film “The Voice of God’s Footsteps”
Special Jury Award to Hasim Ghasemi-Jami, director of the film “Red Freedom”
(Documentary)
Best Film: “It’s Not, But It Is” produced and directed by Vahid Chavush
Best Director: Mohammad Reza Vatandoost for the film “In the Lap of the Red Mountain”
Honorary Director’s Diploma to the late Ebrahim Asgharzadeh for the documentary films “Unanswered Papers” and “The Lost of the Land of Safa” by Moharram Zeinalzadeh
Best Cinematography: Saeed Sadeghi for the film “The Lost of the Land of Safa”
Best Editing: Amin Ghadami for the film “Yesterday’s Tomorrow”
Special Jury Award to the documentary “The Lost” by Mohammad Reza Taheri
Special Jury Award to the documentary “People and Pieces of Iron” by Majed Nisi
Special Jury Award to the documentary “I am Abdulvahid Esmailpour” by Houshang Mirzaei
(TV, short and music video)
Best music video: “Angels of the Earth” by Faramarz Gorjian
Diploma of Honor to the music video “Searching for a Mirror” by Hamid Bahmani
Special Jury Award to Majid Abbasi for directing “Forsat Asheghi”
(short)
Best Director: Payam Zein-El-Abedini for the film “From Breathless”
Diploma of Honor to Mohammad Reza Rahmani for the film “Lullaby for an Empty Cradle”
Special Jury Award to Marzieh Vafamehr for the film “Nabat”
(half-length)
Best Director: Hossein Kamalian for the film “Yalda of Narges”
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