RIFF International Cinema finalists announced

The finalists for the 15th Resistance International Film Festival’s International Cinema awards ceremony have been announced.

The list is as follows:

Best Screenplay Nominees:

‘The Father’ directed by Basil Alkhatib, ‘Passage to Dawn’ directed by Andreu Castro, ‘Underwater Cypress’ directed by Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar, and ‘Midday Event’ directed by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian.

Best Director Nominees:

‘Panfilov's 28’ directed by Kim Druzhinin and Andrey Shalopa, ‘The Lost Strait’ directed by Bahram Tavakoli, ‘A Twelve-Year Night’ directed by Álvaro Brechner, ‘Midday Event’ directed by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian, and ‘Passage to Dawn’ directed by Andreu Castro.

Best Film Nominees:

‘Midday Event’ produced by Seyed Mahmoud Razavi, ‘The Lost Strait’ produced by Saeed Malekan, and ‘A Twelve-Year Night’ produced by Mariela Besuievsky.

Imad Mughniyeh Award Nominees:

‘Life in Patience’ directed by Vahid Farahani, ‘Mystery Of Aleppo’ directed by Naser Naderi, ‘Women with Gunpowder Earrings’ directed by Reza Farahmand, ‘Half Life People’ directed by Rouhollah Ghasemi, ‘Salvation’ directed by Amir-Husayn Norouzi, and ‘ISIS: The Start’ by Mohammad Moarej.

International Documentary Nominees:

‘The Occupation of the American Mind’ directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, ‘I am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts’ directed by Yusuf Zine, ‘Mosul Between War and Peace’ directed by Anastasia Trofimova, ‘Yemen: Kids and War’ directed by Khadija Al-Salami, ‘The Coming War on China’ directed by John Pilger, ‘Women with Gunpowder Earrings’ directed by Reza Farahmand, ‘Killing Gaza’ directed by Max Blumenthal, and ‘On A Knife Edge’ directed by Jeremy Williams.

The 15th annual Resistance International Film Festival seeks to establish an atmosphere of discourse through the recognition of filmmakers and activists. The event also aims to promote common human ethos of peace, brotherhood, and the resistance of oppression, all while fighting violence and terrorism through the universal language of films.

The festival's final ceremony is currently underway at Felestin Theater Hall in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.

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