The ninth edition of the Resistance Film Festival took place from December 8 to 11, 2002, and was directed by Ali Asghar Gholamrezaei.

Gholamrezaei was known as a researcher and journalist, and he also had a history of working for the Iranian Broadcasting Corporation, which led to his appointment as the president of the IRIB University years later. Of course, it is not unreasonable to say that he was perhaps not a very suitable candidate for this position.

Two important events are noteworthy in this edition; one is the removal of the “International” section again, which apparently shows that the gentlemen of that era of the festival were not very happy with the international section. As stated in previous reports, the fifth edition of the Resistance Film Festival included works from non-Iranian cinema in the festival, but they were immediately removed in the next edition.

In the previous period (the eighth period), international cinema was again opened up, and although it was non-competitive, a number of works from international cinema were still present at the Resistance Festival, which was not the case in the ninth period, and the international section of the Resistance Festival was again on the horizon!

The second event was the change in the time of the festival and the reduction in its duration; previous periods were held around mid-October, and most of them lasted 5 to 6 days, but the ninth season of the festival was postponed to December, and the festival was held in 3 days.

Selection Board and Jury

– Feature Film Section:

The late “Ezzatollah Entezami” actor “Pouran Derakhshandeh” screenwriter, producer and director “Naser Shafaq” producer and cinematographer “Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour” writer and director “Mohammad Kasebi” actor

– Documentary Film Section / Selection Board:

“Seyed Hamid Tabatabaei” cultural expert “Mehdi Azimi-Mirabadi” cultural expert “Ali Akbar Ghazi-Nizam” screenwriter “Mohsen Qaisari” documentary maker “Seyed Javad Hashemi” director “Kamran Maleki” director “Reza Kashani-Asadi” cultural expert “Seyed Ahmad Mira-Alai” producer

Jury Board:

“Habibollah Bahmani” director “Ansieh Shah-Hosseini” director “Ahmad Zabeti-Jahromi” documentary maker and editor “Mohammad Reza Shojaei” set designer and art director “Alireza Aqelzadeh” cultural expert “Jalil Erfanmanesh” Cultural Expert

-Promotional Items Section:

“Reza Abedini” Designer and Graphic Designer “Amir Abedi” Photographer “Mahmoud Kalari” Director of Photography “Fouad Najafzadeh” Cinematographer and Photographer “Seyyed Abbas Mirhashemi” Photographer

-Cinema Criticism and Articles Competition Section:

“Azizaleh Hajimashadi” Cinema Critic and Expert “Mahmoud Gaberloo” Cultural Critic and Expert “Javad Toosi” Critic “Mohammad Taghi Fahim” Critic “Pejman Lashkaripour” Producer

*The “Film Criticism” competition section, which was an invention of the previous festival and was considered a good thing, was still able to maintain its existence and perhaps it would not be unfair if we say that it was the only beauty and distinction of this period from the first periods of the festival. Because other than this section, the rest of the sections and events of this period were the same as we witnessed in previous periods of the festival and other festivals.

Selected Works

-35mm Films:

Best Film: “Peace Crackers” produced by Mojtaba Faravardeh (Zeitoon Film)

Best Director: Rasoul Malagholipour for “Poisonous Mushrooms”

Best Screenplay: Ali Shah Hatami for the Screenplay of “Peace Crackers”

Best Cinematographer: Rasoul Ahadi for “Peace Crackers”

Best Editing: Bahram Dehghani for “Poisonous Mushrooms”

Best Special Effects: Mohammad Reza Sharafeddin for “Poisonous Mushrooms”

Best Set Design: Ali Fadakar for “Poisonous Mushrooms”

Best Makeup: Mehdi Hosseinpour for “Journey to Tomorrow”

Best Sound: Abbas Rastegarpour for “Peace Crackers”

Best Sound Mixing: Ali Reza Vahabi for “Lead Stars”

Best Actor: Jamshid Hashempour for “Journey to Fard»a

Best Actress: Azita Hajian for the film Dead Wave and Roya Teymurian for the film Poisonous Mushroom

Best Production Manager: Mohammad Sanati for the film Poisonous Mushroom

Best Music: Arsalan Kamkar for the film Songs of My Homeland

Special Jury Award: Bahman Ghobadi for the film Songs of My Homeland

-In addition, the jury of this section awarded 4 honorary diplomas as follows:

Hossein Fahimi (Sahet)

Seydar Rahim Hosseini (Nowruz)

Javad Ardakani (Chori)

Bahram Tavakoli (Aql Sorkh)

(TV series and films)

Best Director: Hamid Bahmani for the film Time for Ash

Honorary Diploma: Parviz Sheikh Tadi for the film Umbrella for the Director

Best Screenplay: Seyed Saeed Rahmani for the film Time for Ash

Honorary Diploma: Faramarz Gorjian for the film “Niloufaran Khak”

Best Editing: Mehrdad Khoshbakht for the film “Time for Ashes”

Best Actor: Mahmoud Dehghani for the film “The Story of the Camp”

Diploma of Honor: Asghar Naghizadeh for the film “Umbrella for the Director”

Best Cinematography: Sirous Abdoli for the film “Fire and Dew”

(Video)

Best Director: With special thanks to Hamid Bahmani, no work was selected.

Best Screenplay: Seyed Abdolsattar Kakaei for the clip “The Last Season”

Best Cinematography: Iraj Ashouri for the clip “Shams-ul-Zahi”

Best Set Design: Hassan Rastegar and Iraj Ashouri for the clip “Shams-ul-Zahi”

Best Soundtrack: Homayoun Reza Atardi for the clip “Vasat Eshgh”

Diploma of Honor: Nourollah Alizadeh for the clip “Shahid”

(Short Films)

Best Director: Mehdi Parizad for the film “Bright Shadows”

Diploma of Honor: Mehrdad Shourki for the film “The Fountain That Joined the Sea”

Best Cinematography: Hamid Ami for the film “Ji Xuan”

Diploma of Honor: Keyvan Rasaei for the film “Nejat” Group

Best Set Design: Mehrdad Shourki for the film “The Fountain That Joined the Sea”

Best Soundtrack: Homayoun Reza Atardi for the film “The Ambassador of Angels”

Best Screenplay: Mohammad Folklore for “Ji Xuan”

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