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, a Hafez Award and an Iran's Film Critics and Writers Association Award.

Filmography

* ''The Singing Cat'' (1990 – Directed by

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) * '' The Girl in the Sneakers'' (1999 – Directed by

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) * ''

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'' (2002 – Directed by Manijeh Hekmat) * ''Our Days'' (2002 – Directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad) * ''Maxx'' (2005 – Directed by Saman Moghadam) * '' Sweet Jam'' (2006 – Directed by Arezoo Petrossian) * '' Three Women'' (2008 – Directed by Manijeh Hekmat) * ''

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'' (2008 – Directed by

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) * ''

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'' (2010 – Directed by Mohammad Bozorgnia) * ''

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'' (2011 – Directed by

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) * '' Trapped'' (2013 – Directed by

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'' (2013 – Directed by Ali Ahmadzadeh) * ''

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'' (2015 - Directed by Hamid Reza Ghotbi) * ''

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, Egypt, December 1999 * Best Performance Award, for ''The Girl in Sneakers'', ''Dokhtari ba Kafshhaye Katani'' (original title), 14th Isfahan International Film and Video Festival for Children and Young Adults, Iran, October 1999 * Best Actress Award, for ''Women’s Prison'', "Zendan-e zanan" (original title), a movie that is directed by her mother wherein Pegah played three different roles,

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* Best Supporting Actress for ''Trapped'', 31st International Fajr Film Festival 2013

Arrests

Ahangarani was arrested on 27 July 2009 in the wake of the turmoil after the 2009 presidential election, allegedly for her work in support of opposition candidate

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. She was later released but arrested again on 10 July 2011 prior to her planned trip to

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to report on the

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for the

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service of the German broadcaster

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. She was released from Evin Prison two weeks later on the equivalent of $84,000 bail after expressions of "outrage among foreign governments and human rights organizations".

References

External links

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Pegah Ahangarani at Namnakh

A review of ''The Girl in the Sneakers''

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