Shahram Mokri ( fa, شهرام مکری)(born 1978) is an Iranian filmmaker. He graduated from

Soore University Soore University (SU) ( fa, دانشگاه سوره, ''Dânešgâh-e Sure'') is a semi-private non-for-profit research university located in Tehran, Iran. Soore University was founded in 1994, and it is considered among the top art universities ...

. Mokri started his filmmaking training in the Young Cinema Association and entered the professional world of cinema with his short film "Dragonfly Storm" (2002).

Career

Mokri received three Crystal Simorghs from the Fajr Film Festival for short films. He holds the record for receiving Crystal Simorghs in this category. In addition to filmmaking, Shahram Mokri has worked as a film Teacher at the Sooreh University of Tehran, the University of Arts, as well as Karnameh Film School, and the Bamdad Film School. Mokri won the Venice Film Festival's Horizons Award in 2013 for "Creative Content" for his film Fish and Cat.

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also won a silver Hugo medal at the Chicago Film Festival in the main section for

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. and the Venice Critics' Best Screenplay Award for the same film is among his other awards. Shahram Mokri is a founding member of the ISFA Cinema House Short Film Association. He has also served on the association's board of directors for three terms. In 2003, he was selected as the best young man in the country in the field of art by the National Youth Organization. He was nominated for the 2013

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for ''Fish & Cat''. For his short film ''The Dragonfly Storm'', Mokri won Best Director at the 2007

Noor Iranian Film Festival The Noor Iranian Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Los Angeles, California, founded by cultural producer Siamak Ghahremani and co-founder Anthony Azizi in 2007. The festival's namesake comes from the word Nur, also spelled Noor, mea ...

Filmography

Awards

Winner of Crystal Simorgh Best Short Film Limited of a circle 25th

Fajr International Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival ( fa, جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; fa, جشنواره فیلم فجر), has been held every February and April in Tehran since 1982. T ...

(International Competition). Winner of Crystal Simorgh Best Short Film The Dragonfly Storm 22nd

(Iran Competition). Winner of Crystal Simorgh Best Short Film The Dragonfly Storm of the 22nd

(International Competition). Winner of the Cinema House Festival statuette for the short film Ando-C. Winner of the Cinema House Festival statuette for the film Limited of a circle. Winner of the Unica Silver Medal from Germany (World Amateur Filmmakers) for the film Dragonfly Storm. Winner of the Best Experimental Film Award at the Tehran International Short Film Festival for The Dragonfly Storm. Winner of the best experimental film in the international section of the Tehran International Short Film Festival for The Dragonfly Storm. Winner of the Best Audience Film Award at the Tehran International Short Film Festival for the film The Dragonfly Storm. Winner of the award for the best experimental film in the international section of the Tehran International Short Film Festival for the film Limited of a circle 0 Winner of the Best Experimental Film Award in the International Section of the Tehran International Short Film Festival for Ando-C. Winner of the Best Audience Film Award at the Tehran International Short Film Festival for Ando-C. Winner of the Best Experimental Film Award in the International Section of the Tehran International Short Film Festival for Raw, Cooked, Burnt. Winner of the Obenze Festival bronze medal for the film The Dragonfly Storm. Winner of Best Short Film, Kish Film Festival The Dragonfly Storm. Winner of the Best Short Film Award at the Tajik Film Festival for Limited of a circle. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sony Short Film Festival for The Dragonfly Storm. Winner of the Golden Cheetah Award for Raw, cooked, Burnt Film at the Tashkent International Film Festival. Winner of the Kazakhstan Film Academy Award for the raw, cooked, burnt. Winner of a plaque for directing Ashkan, The Charmed Ring, and other stories from the Fajr Film Festival. Winner of a special jury award from the Festival of Critics and Writers of Iranian Cinema for the film Ashkan, the Charmed Ring, and other stories. Winner of the Horizon Award for Innovative Theme, 2013 Venice Film Festival for

Fish & Cat ''Fish & Cat'' (in Persian : ماهی و گربه; transliterated as ''Mahi va Gorbeh'') is a 2013 mystery drama slasher Iranian film directed by Shahram Mokri about of a group of university students camping at a lakeside for kite-running compe ...

. Winner of the Best Film Award at the Lisbon Film Festival for

4 Winner of the Special Jury Prize for the film

from the Dubai Fethlam Festival. Winner of the Pfeiffer Prize at the Freiburg Film Festival for the film

. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Freiburg Festival for

. 7 Winner of the Best Film Award at the IF-Istanbul Festival for

8 Winner of the Critics' Best Film Award at the IF- Istanbul Film Festival for

. Winner of the Best Audience Film Award from the Balad Film Festival for the film

. Winner of the Venice Critics Association Award for the screenplay of

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(shared with Nasim Ahmadpour. Winner Hugo Silver won the

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in the main category for the film

. Winner of the Best Screenplay Award (shared with

Nasim Ahmadpour Nassim ( ar, نسیم) also transliterated as Nacim, Naseem, Nasseem, Nasim, Nesim or Nessim, is a unisex Arabic name. It is mostly used in Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures and language groups. It may refer to: Company *Nasim Sdn Bhd, a m ...

) from the Dhaka International Film Festival for the film

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