The eighth edition of the Resistance Film Festival was held from October 27 to 30, 2000 under the direction of “Abdolhassan Barzideh.” Before becoming the director of this edition of the event, Barzideh had a background in acting and writing several films, but this was his first experience at the Resistance Film Festival, meaning that he had not been a member of the festival team before, either as a director or as a member of the selection and judging panel.

In this edition of the festival, a forgotten section returned and a dead section was reborn; the section (so-called “gentlemen’s own”) of promotional items, which included photos, posters, and teasers and had been part of the festival in recent years but had been removed in the seventh edition, the previous edition, returned to the festival sections.

Also, the International Films section, which had only been included in the festival once in the fifth edition in 1994 and then lost its life and was not considered by the festival officials for some unknown reason, was reborn in the eighth edition and became one of the festival sections. But even this year, it was present at the festival as a guest and on the sidelines and was not judged and judged with Iranian films, which in itself is worthy of criticism.

The International Films section featured 11 feature films, including such notable works as Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” Oliver Stone’s “Platoon,” and Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” all three of which are famous American filmmakers.

*The selection committee and judges of this period included the following people:

– Feature Film Section:

Selection Committee: The late “Habibollah Kasesaz” Director “Mozaffar Shojaei” Cultural Expert “Seyed Saeed Seyedzadeh” Director “Majid Rajabi-Memar” Researcher “Habibollah Bahmani” Director

Jury Committee: “Rokhshan Bani-Etemad” Screenwriter, Producer and Director “Mojtaba Ra’i” Director “Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour” Producer and Director “Masoud Faraste” Critic “Majid Majidi” Screenwriter and Director

– Short Film Section:

Selection Committee: “Mohammad Reza Ahanj” Director “Hassan Amjadi-Moghaddam” Producer “Hossein Khorshidi” Cultural Expert “Alireza Aqelzadeh” Cultural Expert “Abdolsattar Kakaei” Documentary Maker

Jury Committee: “Abbas Akbari” Screenwriter and Producer “Hassan Hasandost” Editor “Mohammad Reza” Sharifi” Jafar Sanei-Moghaddam “Producer” Cultural Expert “Masoud Farasti” Critic

-Television Programs Section

Jury Board: “Mahmoud Arbabi” Cultural Expert “Mohammad Reza Eslah” TV Program Expert and Consultant “Jahangir Almasi” Actor “Javad Shamghadari” Director “Mahmoud Sholizadeh” Ahmad Zabeti-Jahromi” Documentary Maker and Editor “Naser Ensri” Cultural Expert “Ali Akbar Ghazi-Nezam” Screenwriter

-Promotional Items Section:

Selection Board: “Mahmoud Badrfar” Photographer “Alireza Ghaderi” Photographer “Alireza Ghalabiyan” Photographer

-Jury Board: “Bahman Jalali” Photographer “Habib Sadeghi” Painter “Saifollah Samadian” Photographer, Director and Cinematographer “Reza Abedini” Photographer and Graphic Designer “Shahabeddin Adel” Photographer, Documentary Maker and Researcher

-Cinema Criticism and Articles Competition Section:

Selection Board: “Mohsen Azram” critic “Abbas Bayati” critic “Hamidreza Houshmand” critic

Jury Board: “Khosro Dehghan” critic “Abolhasan Alavi Tabatebai” critic “Mehrdad Farid” director “Mahmoud Gaberloo” critic and cultural expert “Mohammad Hossein Mozezinia” critic “Kamran Maleki” critic

In the eighth season of the film festival, a section was added that was of great importance; under the title “Cinema Criticism and Essays Competition Section” whose members of the selection board and judges were announced in the previous section. In this section, as its name suggests, film criticism and scientific articles on this subject were examined and judged. The importance of this section stems from the fact that it shows that the knowledge-based part of cinema and theoretical sciences are slowly being taken into account.

Without a doubt, cinema, like any other field and field, cannot hope for its future until precise scientific definitions are created and it reaches a deep level of theory and thought, because it is like a building without a foundation. In any case, adding this section is a sign of the beginning of taking steps to pay attention to this important matter.

* From Iranian cinema, 11 feature films were also present at the festival, but no significant or lasting effects were seen among them; there were also 22 short films and 26 video and television programs.

Winners:

The winners of this edition of the festival are as follows:

Best Film: Office from the Sky (Parviz Sheikhtadi), Half-Missing (Mohammad Ali Bashe-Ahangar) and Hope (Rasool Molaghipour)

Best Special Effects: Morteza Akbari for the film “Half-Missing”

Best Actress in a Leading Role: Roya Teymurian for the film “Office from the Sky”

Best Cinematography: Nasser Mahmoudieh-Kalaye for the film “Half-Missing”

(In the Last Twenty Years of Cinema)

Special Jury Award for the 4 Leading Filmmakers of the Sacred Defense, Rasool Molaghipour, Ebrahim Hatamikia, Kamal Tabrizi and Azizollah Hamidnejad

(Short Film)

Best Director: Bijan Mirbagheri for the film “Two Sisters”

Best Screenplay: Bijan Mirbagheri for writing the screenplay for the film “Two Sisters”

(Video)

Best Director: Mohammad Reza Rahmani for the film “Aroosak”

Best Screenplay: Mohammad Shirvani for writing the screenplay for the film “Candida”

Diploma of Honor: Shahram Darvish for writing the screenplay for the film “Hesr Zendegi”

Special Jury Prize: Mohammad Shirvani for the film “Candida”

(TV Biennial)

Best Director: Ataollah Salmanian for the film “Tagaqbal”

Best Screenplay: Ataollah Salmanian for writing the screenplay for the film “Tagaqbal”

Best Producer: Saeed Saadi for the film “Tagaqbal”

Best Documentary: Ebrahim Asgharzadeh for the film “Nafshaye Mandegar”

(Twenty Years of Television)

Best Screenplay: Kambouzia Partovi for the screenplay for the series “Gol Pamchal” and “Khane Dar Entezar”

Best Director: Abdollah