Reza Farahmand
Bornc. 1978
Birjand, Iran
NationalityIranian
OccupationFilm director

Reza Farahmand (Persian: رضا فرهمند; born c. 1978)[1] is an Iranian film director, most known for documentary films.

Films

  • 2010: Climbing Room[2]
  • 2013: No Honking Please![2][3]
  • 2014: Freedom (feature-length documentary co-directed with Kamil Soheili) - The film is about the cruelty of hunting of migratory birds in the wetlands of Fereydunkenar County using illegal bird trap nets.[1][4]
  • 2015: Swallow [Persook, پرسوک][5][6]
  • 2015: Forgotten Childhood
  • 2017: Women with Gunpowder Earrings [Zanani ba gooshvarehaye barooti][7] - In the film an Iraqi female journalist Noor Al Helli reports about Syrian and Iraqi refugee women and children from the families of ISIL.[8][9][10]
  • 2019: Copper Notes of a Dream [Notha -ye- mesi yek roya] - It was selected for the 13th Cinema Verite[11] and for the Camden International Film Festival. The film chronicles a period in the life of Malook, a ten-year-old Palestinian refugee who lives in a ravaged area of Damascus. To finance the organization of a concert with professional musicians (he dreams of being a singer), he and his friends take the copper wiring from ruined buildings to sell. They write apologies on the walls in case the previous occupants ever return.[12] Steve Dollar, who saw the documentary at Camden, commented in Filmmaker that "the story is as quietly heartbreaking as it is hopeful in the childrens' [sic] zest not only to abide but to transform the damaged world around them".[13] The film was selected for the national competition at Cinema Verite,[14] and was shown at the Olympia film festival in Greece.[15]

Awards

  • Climbing Room : "Crystal Simurgh", the best short and mid-documentary film award from 28th Fajr International Film Festival, Iran[16]
  • Women with Gunpowder Earrings:
    • Main award of the 16th Signes de Nuit international film festival in France[9]
    • Best Documentary Award at the 8th ÍRÁN:CI, the Festival of Iranian Films in Prague, Brno and Bratislava[9]
    • Best feature-length documentary of 2017 at the 11th Cinema Verite, an Iranian documentary film festival.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "رضا فرهمند با دو فیلم مستند قربانی و آزادی در سینماحقیقت (Reza Farahmand with two documentaries Victim and Freedom in Cinema Vérité)". Cinema Vérité Iran Int'l Documentary Festival News. October 26, 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Reza Farahmand", a profile at Locarno Film Festival
  3. ↑ 43rd Roshd International Film Festival (PDF). Organization for Education Research and Planning Supplying Education Media Center. 2013. p. 130. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  4. ↑ "Ninth Cinema Verite International Festival", Iran Cine News, December 18, 2017
  5. ↑ "National Competition", p. 225, Iran Documentary Festival
  6. ↑ «پرسوک»؛ روایتی از زندگی ماهی‌فروش بوشهری با دختر آلمانی "Persuasion - a tale of a Bushehr fisherman's life with a German girl", Tasnim News, November 1, 2008
  7. ↑ "WOMEN WITH GUNPOWDER EARRING by Reza FARAHMAND", ArtHouse Cinematheque, 2018
  8. ↑ نشست خبری فیلم زنانی با گوشواره‌های باروتی| حسن مهدوی: صدابردارمان شنوایی گوشش را در این مستند از دست داد! (Press Conference of Women in Gunpowder Earrings Hassan Mahdavi: The audio recorders lost their hearing in this documentary!), Tasnim News
  9. 1 2 3 "Iranian Documentary on ISIL Women to Vie at 3 European Festivals", Fars News, February 24, 2019
  10. ↑ "WOMEN WITH GUNPOWDER EARRINGS - 2018 DOK Leipzig film archive"
  11. 1 2 "Cinema Verite to screen Copper Notes of a Dream". Tehran Times. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  12. ↑ "Copper Notes of a Dream picked for Camden documentary film festival". Tehran Times. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  13. ↑ Dollar, Steve (27 September 2019). "Avoiding Festivalitis: 2019 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Pitch". Filmmaker. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  14. ↑ "Cinéma Vérité unveils national lineup". Tehran Times. 30 November 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  15. ↑ "Am I A Wolf? taking part at Olympia filmfest. in Greece". Mehr News Agency. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  16. ↑ «اتاق صعود»‌ سيمرغ بلورين بخش مستند كوتاه و نيمه‌بلند را دريافت كرد Fars News
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