Reza Farahmand Explained

Reza Farahmand
Birth Place:	Birjand, Iran
Occupation:	Film director
Nationality:	Iranian

Reza Farahmand (fa|رضا فرهمند; born)^[1] is an Iranian film director, most known for documentary films.

Films

• 2010: ^[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: [Persook, {{lang|fa|پرسوک}}]^{[5] [6]}
• 2015: Forgotten Childhood
• 2017: [''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 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.^[11] Steve Dollar, who saw the documentary at Camden, commented in Filmmaker that "the story is as quietly heartbreaking as it is hopeful in the zest not only to abide but to transform the damaged world around them".^[12] The film was selected for the national competition at Cinema Verite,^[13] and was shown at the Olympia film festival in Greece.^[14]

Awards

• Climbing Room : "", the best short and mid-documentary film award from 28th Fajr International Film Festival, Iran^[15]
• Women with Gunpowder Earrings:
  • Main award of the 16th Signes de Nuit international film festival in France^[9]
  • Best Documentary Award at the 8th, 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.^[16]

Notes and References

1. News: رضا فرهمند با دو فیلم مستند قربانی و آزادی در سینماحقیقت (Reza Farahmand with two documentaries Victim and Freedom in Cinema Vérité) . 12 December 2019 . Cinema Vérité Iran Int'l Documentary Festival News . October 26, 2015.
2. https://www.locarnofestival.ch/pardo/program/person.html?pid=1034041&eid=72 "Reza Farahmand"
3. Book: 43rd Roshd International Film Festival . 2013 . Organization for Education Research and Planning Supplying Education Media Center . 130 . 12 December 2019.
4. https://irancinenews.com/news/1632/ninth-cinema-verite-international-festival "Ninth Cinema Verite International Festival", Iran Cine News, December 18, 2017
5. http://irandocfest.ir/images/docs/files/000000/nf00000756-1.pdf "National Competition", p. 225, Iran Documentary Festival
6. https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1393/08/10/546520/%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%DA%A9-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C-%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B1-%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C «پرسوک»؛ روایتی از زندگی ماهی‌فروش بوشهری با دختر آلمانی
7. http://www.iranarthousefilm.net/movies/women-with-gunpowder-earring-by-reza-farahman/ "WOMEN WITH GUNPOWDER EARRING by Reza FARAHMAND", ArtHouse Cinematheque, 2018
8. https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1396/11/21/1653553/%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%88%DB%8C-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%B4-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF 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. Web site: Iranian Documentary on ISIL Women to Vie at 3 European Festivals. Fars News. February 24, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190225152319/http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13971205000769. 2019-02-25 .
10. https://filmarchiv.dok-leipzig.de/en/film/?ID=22402&title=Women+with+Gunpowder+Earrings "WOMEN WITH GUNPOWDER EARRINGS - 2018 DOK Leipzig film archive"
11. News: . 6 December 2019 . 4 September 2019 . Copper Notes of a Dream picked for Camden documentary film festival.
12. Avoiding Festivalitis: 2019 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Pitch . 27 September 2019 . 6 December 2019 . Steve . Dollar . Filmmaker.
13. News: . 6 December 2019 . 30 November 2019 . Cinéma Vérité unveils national lineup.
14. News: Am I A Wolf? taking part at Olympia filmfest. in Greece . . 6 December 2019 . 3 December 2019.
15. https://www.farsnews.com/printnews/8811141700/ «اتاق صعود»‌ سيمرغ بلورين بخش مستند كوتاه و نيمه‌بلند را دريافت كرد Fars News
16. News: . 6 December 2019 . 3 September 2019 . Cinema Verite to screen Copper Notes of a Dream.