Vahid Jalilvand wins Fajr director title

Iranian director Vahid Jalilvand has received the best director award at the 35th edition of the Fajr Film Festival in Iran.

Jalilvand grabbed the award on February 9, 2017, for directing ‘No Date, No Signature’.

The director’s brother, Ali, produced the flick with Peyman Yazdanian making the music.

Hediyeh Tehrani, Amir Aghaee, Saeed Dakh, Alireza Ostadi and Navid Mohammadzadeh have starred in ‘No Date, No Signature’.

The movie narrates the story of Kaveh Nariman, a doctor who works at the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization. He has to examine the corpse of someone he used to know in the past.

Born in 1975, Jalilvand studied Theatre Directing at the University of Tehran and became a TV presenter, voice actor as well as a theater and television actor.

He began his artistic journey at the age of 15 by playing a role in theatre.

Besides acting in theatre, he simultaneously worked in the radio. Jalilvand's TV series debut was 'The Addiction Trap'(1994).

He made his movie debut with 'Extreme Cold' (2009). He has also directed several TV shows, including 'Rain in Another Perspective’, 'Say Hi, Setareh' and '40 Minutes Without Judgment', and directed the play 'Love is Not Something That Happens' with themes about Imam Hussein (AS).

He won the Best Director award for the movie 'Wednesday, 9 May' (2014) in the New Vision section of 33rd Fajr International Film Festival.

The closing ceremony of 35th Fajr Film Festival was held on Thursday with Crystal Simorgh awards given to best nominees in each competitive category of the event.

Fajr Festivals are held annually in Iran during the Fajr Decade (literally meaning ten days of dawn), which marks the anniversary of the ten days from the return of Imam Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, to Iran (February 1) until the victory day of the Islamic Revolution (February 11) in 1979.

Established in 1982, the Fajr International Film Festival celebrates cultural exchange, displays creative achievements of highly acclaimed cineastes and pays tribute to local and international films.

Since its establishment, the Fajr Film Festival has played a vital role in the development of Iranian Cinema.

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