Iran cinema in past year: snapshot

As the nation is celebrating the New Iranian Year (Nowruz festival, marking the advent of spring), here is a selection of a number of events in the cinema industry during the past year.

- The 74th Venice Film Festival awarded Navid Mohammadzadeh (as Best Actor) and Vahid Jalilvand  (as Best Director) for ‘No Date, No Signature’.

- ‘Malaria’ won two awards of Best Actress (to Saghar Qana'at) and Best Director (to co-directors Parviz Shahbazi and Masoud Radaei) from the 10th International Film Festival 'East&West' in Russia.

- Iranian blockbuster ‘Sperm Whale 2’ hit highest-grossing record of the past six years by passing ‘Outcast’.

- Narges Abyar, with her movie ‘Breath’, was Iran’s first female director to vie for Foreign Language Oscar Nomination.

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