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Javad Ezzati
Mohammad Javad Ezzati ( fa, محمد جواد عزتی, born January 10, 1982) is an Iranian actor. He has received critical acclaim for his work in a wide range of genres. As of 2019, Ezzati's starring films have grossed 150 billion toman and accumulated more than 18 million tickets, making him the highest-grossing actor in Iran. He has received various accolades, including two Hafez Awards, an :fa:انجمن منتقدان و نویسندگان سینمایی ایران, Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award and an Urban International Film Festival, Urban International Film Festival Award, in addition to nominations for three Crystal Simorghs and an Iran Cinema Celebration Award. Career Ezzati began his acting career at age 15 with working in theatre. He made his Television debut in ''Night Tales'' (2002)'', Mozaffar's Garden'' (2006)'', Man of Many Faces (TV series), Man of Many Faces'' (2008)'', 50-50 of a Shop'' (2011) and gained recognition for his role as La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
37th Fajr Film Festival
The 37th Fajr Film Festival ( fa, سی و هفتمین جشنواره فیلم فجر) held from 1 to 11 February 2019 in Tehran, Iran. The nominees for the 37th Fajr Film Festival were announced on February 10, 2019, at a press conference. Jury Main Competition * Mohammad Ehsani * Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar * Mohammad Bozorgnia * Mehrzad Danesh * Pouran Derakhshandeh * Rima Raminfar * Mahmoud Kalari First Look, Short Film, Documentary * Mohammad Afarideh * Habib Ahmadzadeh * Aida Panahandeh * Saeed Soheili * Maziar Miri Winners and nominees Main Competition First Look Advertising Competition Films with multiple wins Films with multiple nominations Films Main Competition First Look Animation Documentary Short Film References External links 37th Fajr Film Festivalat IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lottery (2018 Film)
''Lottery'' (Persian: لاتاری) is a 2018 Iranian romance thriller drama film directed by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian and written by Ebrahim Amini and Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian. The film screened for the first time at the 36th Fajr Film Festival. Plot Amir Ali and Nooshin are two youngsters who are in love and want to get married. Their families are not in agreement with this plan. The two youngsters both have only one dream, to win the Lottery and get a green card and move to the United States. Cast * Saed Soheili as Amir Ali * Hadi Hejazifar as Mousa * Hamid Farrokhnezhad as Morteza * Ziba Karamali as Nooshin * Javad Ezzati Mohammad Javad Ezzati ( fa, محمد جواد عزتی, born January 10, 1982) is an Iranian actor. He has received critical acclaim for his work in a wide range of genres. As of 2019, Ezzati's starring films have grossed 150 billion toman and a ... as Nima * Nader Soleimani as Naeem * Alireza Ostadi as Reza Beigi * Mahdi Zaminpardaz as Sami * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it; he was involved with all aspects of film production. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film '' Sanshiro Sugata''. After the war, the critically acclaimed ''Drunken Angel'' (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then little-known actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another fifteen films. ''Rashomon'' (1950), which premiered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massoud Farasati
Massoud Farassati (also spelled ''Farasati'' or ''Ferasati'', fa, مسعود فراستی) is an Iranian film critic. He used to regularly appear in the Iranian State Television programme ''Haft'', hosted by Fereydoun Jeyrani and later by Behrouz Afkhami. He has published anthologies of writings about such classical filmmakers as Charlie Chaplin, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman in Persian. Views According to Saeed Kamali Dehghan of ''The Guardian'', his views are close to those of the Iranian government. He is a harshly dismissive of Abbas Kiarostami's works. Farassati uses the terms ''Siahnamayi'' and ''Festival Cinema'' ( fa, سینمای جشنوارهای) to describe films he deems "exotic" to foreign audience and of only seeking to win awards in the West. As of today, Ferassati appears on the show 'Ketab Baaz' with views regarding diverse subjects Favourite movies # ''Vertigo'' , Alfred Hitchcock # ''Saraband'' , In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphibious (2020 Film)
''Amphibious'' (Persian: دوزیست, romanized: ''Dozist'') is a 2020 Iranian drama film directed and written by Borzou Niknejad. The film screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival. Premise In the south of the city, a boy named Atta lives with his father and has sent two of his friends home. The maid who works for their neighbor has a special attachment to atta, but Atta doesn't know anything about it. The maid brings a girl to Atta's house and claims that she is her cousin, and asks Atta to keep her secretly in his house for a few days. Atta accepts this and the story begins when the girl enters the house. Cast * Javad Ezzati as Atta * Hadi Hejazifar as Hamid *Pejman Jamshidi as Mojtaba * Setareh Pesyani as Azadeh *Mani Haghighi as Atta's neighbor *Saeed Poursamimi Saeed Poursamimi (Persian: سعید پورصمیمی, born February 29, 1944) is an Iranian actor. He has received various accolades, including three Crystal Simorgh for Best Supporting Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
38th Fajr Film Festival
The 38th Fajr Film Festival (Persian: سی و هشتمین جشنواره فیلم فجر) held from 1 to 11 February 2020 in Tehran, Iran. The nominees for the 38th Fajr Film Festival were announced on February 10, 2020, at a press conference. Jury Main Competition * Narges Abyar * Touraj Aslani * Abbas Blondie * Reza Pour Hossein * Fereydoun Jeyrani * Saeed Rad * Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour * Tahmaseb Solhjoo * Maziar Miri First Look, Short Film, Documentary * Mehdi Jafari * Rouhollah Hejazi * Mostafa Razagh Karimi * Fereshteh Taerpour * Hadi Moghadamdoost Hadi Moghadamdoost (born 1971) is an Iranian director and screenwriter. He is best known for his screenplay for the 2018 film '' Sholevar'', for which he received several industry nominations. He has directed several movies: * 2020 - Soldier (TV ... Advertising Competition * Mohammad Rouhollamin * Amir Sheiban Khaghani * Habib Majidi Winners and nominees Main Competition First Look Advertisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drown (film)
''Drown'' ( fa, شنای پروانه, Shena-ye Parvaneh) (also titled ''Butterfly Stroke'') is an Iranian drama crime mystery film directed by Mohammad Kart. The film screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival and earned 12 nominations and received 5 awards. Plot Parvaneh ( Tanaz Tabatabai) goes to her brother-in-law Hojjat (Javad Ezzati)'s refinery garage and asks him to stop his brother Hashem (Amir Aghaei). Hashem has gone to a swimming pool with his henchmen for revenge and is destroying it because a video of Parvaneh swimming in the swimming pool is published on the Internet. On the way back from the pool, Hashem kills Parvaneh. The court sentences Hashem to death. Hojjat and his father (Nader Shahsavari) go to Parvaneh's father (Alireza Davoudnejad) for consent. Parvaneh's father says he only agrees if the one who took the video is found. Police say the SIM card that first aired the film belonged to a man named Reza Zare, who recently escaped from an addict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. The distinctive characteristics of the Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atabai
''Atabai'' (Persian: آتابای) is a 2020 Iranian romantic drama film directed by Niki Karimi and written by Hadi Hejazifar and Karimi. The film screened for the first time at the 38th Fajr Film Festival and earned 5 nominations. Premise The story is about Kazem a middle aged man who lives in a village. He has left the university because of a former love but when two sisters enter his life he falls in love once again. Cast * Hadi Hejazifar as Kazem / Atabai * Sahar Dolatshahi as Sima * Javad Ezzati as Yahya * Danial Noroush as Aydin * Masoumeh Rabaninia as Jeyran *Mahlagha Meynoosh Zad as Simin * Yousefali Daryadel as Kazem's Father Reception Accolades See also * Coal * 3 Faces * The Song of Sparrows ''The Song of Sparrows'' (''Âvâz-e gonjeshk-hâ'') ( fa, آواز گنجشکها ) is a 2008 Iranian movie directed by Majid Majidi. It tells the story of Karim, a man who works at an ostrich farm until he is fired because one of the ostrich ... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
93rd Academy Awards
The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released from January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. The ceremony was held on April 25, 2021, rather than its usual late-February date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh, and was directed by Glenn Weiss. For the third consecutive year, the ceremony had no official host. In related events, the Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host Nia DaCosta on February 13, 2021, in a virtual ceremony. ''Nomadland'' won three awards at the main ceremony, including Best Picture. Other winners included '' The Father'', ''Judas and the Black Messiah'', ''Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'', '' Mank'', ''Soul'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.80th Academy Awards – Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award . . Retrieved November 2, 2007. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Children
''Sun Children'' ( fa, خورشید, Khoršid), also known as ''The Sun'', is a 2020 Iranian drama film co-produced, co-written and directed by Majid Majidi. It was presented in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, where child actor Rouhollah Zamani won the Marcello Mastroianni Award. It was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, making the shortlist of fifteen films. Plot 12-year-old Ali and his three friends do small jobs and petty crimes to survive and support their families. In a timely turn of events, Ali is entrusted to find a hidden underground treasure. However, in order to gain access to the tunnel where the treasure is buried, Ali and his gang have first to enroll at the near Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers. Cast * Rouhollah Zamani as Ali * Javad Ezzati as School Vice Principal * Shamila Shirzad as Zahra * Ali Nassirian as Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
