The 12th season of the Resistance Film Festival, which now carries the suffix “international” and is called the International Resistance Film Festival, was held from October 23 to 27, 2012.
For the second consecutive season, its secretariat was entrusted to “Mohammad Khazaei”, known as a producer and investor in Iranian cinema. Khazaei was also the helmsman of the event’s secretariat before this season, namely the 11th season, and the three following seasons, namely the 13th, 14th, and 15th seasons of the Resistance Film Festival.
In this period, the following 3 sections were also judged and judged:
– “Iranian Cinema” which included documentary, video, new perspective, short and long story
– “Golden Pen” including cinema and video
– “International” including cinema and documentary
Like the previous period, the international section had a section called “Special Section” which was dedicated to the subject of Gaza in the 11th period and in this period it was given to the great martyr “Imad Mughniyeh”.
A section that should not have been eliminated
It is also worth mentioning that the “Promotional Items” section was eliminated in this period and posters, teasers and trailers of the works were not included in the competition, which was completely unacceptable and a mistake; because a part of this cinematic event was eliminated that bears a significant share of the cinema business industry and is in fact the most important medium of communication between the work of art and the audience.
Selection Board and Jury
The selection board and jury of the 12th Resistance Film Festival included the following members: Davoud Rashidi and Yadollah Samadi, Seyyed Rasoul Sadrameli, Pouran Derakhshandeh, Jamal Shourjeh, Habibollah Kasesaz, Ali Dehkordi, Mohammad Ali Bashe-Ahangar, Fereydoun Jairani, Reza Mirkarimi, Alireza Shoja-Nouri, Masoud Dehnamaki, Jahangir Almasi, Mohammad Reza Sharifinia, and others.
Works
Some of the works screened during this period were:
– “Golchehra” by Vahid Moosaian was one of the works of this period, which tells the story of “Ashraf Khan”, the owner of the Kabul cinema, who after the fall of the communist government of Najibullah and the Mujahideen’s domination of Kabul, wants to rebuild his cinema, but the unity of the government does not last long and civil wars once again rise from the ruins of Kabul, and this war also finds its way to the National Cinema of Afghanistan, where the visual history of a nation lies.
– “Thirty-Three Days” by Jamal Shurjeh is the story of villagers who resist the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon for thirty-three days until they achieve victory.
– “Khak va Atash” by Mehdi Sabbaghzadeh tells the story of a man named “Ji’and” who, in 1315, rebels against the British and expels them from Iranian soil.
* One point should be noted in this regard; Cinematographers are slowly removing the field of resistance from its monopoly in Iran. In other words, when we observe the works of cinema from previous years on the subject of resistance and defense, we see that their definition of resistance is limited to the values and ideals of this country within the framework of Iranian soil; while most of the works of this period and these years of cinema, their narratives are more in the form of reinterpreting the same resistance but in the international context, especially in countries in the region such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Selected Works
Iranian Cinema
Best Film: Days of Life, produced by Saeed Saadi
Nominees: Queen (Seydabulghasem Hosseini), 33 Days (Mehdi Homayounfar), Kissing the Moon (Manouchehr Mohammadi), Golchehreh (Vahid Moosaian)
Best Director: Parviz Sheikhtadi for Days of Life
Diploma of Honor: Homayoun Asaadian for Kissing the Moon
Nominees: Mohammad Ali Bashe-Ahangar (Queen), Vahid Moosaian (Golchehreh), Jamal Shourjeh (33 Days)
Best Screenplay: Parviz Sheikhtadi for Days of Life
Diploma of Honor: Hamid Bahmani, Alireza Aqelzadeh and Ali Minaei for the screenplay for The Throat of the Devil
Nominees: Mohammad Reza Goheri and Mohammad Ali Bashe-Ahangar (Queen), Vahid Moosaian (Golchehreh), Homayoun Asaadian (Kissing the Moon) Moon)
Best Actor: Milad Kımaram for the film Queen
Nominees: Hamid Farrokhnejad (Days of Life), Fariborz Arabnia (Soil and Fire), Amin Zendegani (The Throat of Satan), Masoud Riyan (Golchehreh)
Best Actress: Henmeh Ghaziani for the film Days of Life
Diploma of Honor: Shirin Yazdanbakhsh for the film Kissing on the Moon
Nominee: Laden Mostofi (Golchehreh)
Best Special Effects: Mohsen Roozbahani for the films 33 Days, Days of Life and Queen
Special Jury Award: Alireza Zarrindast for the cinematography of Queen
Audience Choice: Kissing on the Moon directed by Homayoun Asadian and produced by Manouchehr Mohammadi
Cinematography
First Choice: Javad Jalali for the photos of the film Berlin Negative 7
Diploma of Honor: Mehdi Delkhasteh for Thesis Film Photos
Diploma of Honor: Amir Hossein Shojaei for the photos of the film Queen
Golden Pen (Film Screenplay)
First Choice: Mehrdad Khoshbakht for writing the text of the memorial
Diploma of Honor: Mohammad Javad Akbari for writing the text of the identity
Diploma of Honor: Sirous Hassanpour and Naghmeh Samini for writing the text of the paper cranes
Nominees: Mohammad Aref (Your Birthday), Behrouz Faraji (Behind the Hedge of the Soil), Ali Asghar Ahmadi-Moghaddam (The Killer Returns to the Scene of the Crime)
Golden Pen (Video Screenplay)
The jury did not have a first choice in this section and only awarded two diplomas of honor and a plaque of appreciation as follows
Diploma of Honor: Farzad Abu Hamzeh and Ali Farzinfar for the script of the target
Diploma of Honor: Ali Reza Pouryoussef and Reza Atefi for the script of the last letter
Plaque of Appreciation: Ali Shah Hatami for writing the text Zakaria
Nominees: Mohammad Hossein Soltani (The Last Extinguished Light), Sheila Ariana (Dandelions of Thunder), Siamak Atlasi (Salus)
Short Fiction Films
First Place: You Don’t Smell Like You by Seifollah Yazdani
Second Place: The Silence of the Ponds by Fatemeh Dastmard
Third Place: Airligh by Nader Saevar
Diploma
