Baran Kosari wins award in Ireland

‘The Third Day’ star, Baran Kosari has won an award at the 2019 edition of the Dublin Film Festival in Ireland, the UK.

The young talented Iranian actress has taken home the Jury Prize of the Irish film event for her performance in Soheil Beiraqi’s ‘Cold Sweat’ (AKA ‘Permission’).

However, this is not the first award and nomination for Kosari. Her role in ‘Binam Alley’ (2014), for example, won her a Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress from the Fajr International Film Festival.

In 2006, also, she won a nom at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Festival in Australia for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in ‘Mainline’.

Baran was born to an artistic couple. Her father is film producer Jahangir Kosari and her mother is the internationally known director and a member of Oscars Academy, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad.

‘Cold Sweat’ focuses on women's rights. Iranian women's futsal team is on the verge of playing its most important game of all times when the captain of the team finds out she has been travel-banned by her husband. She has to deal with the challenge at the airport and later at home.

The film bagged several nominations and awards at the 36th Fajr Film Festival, including a Crystal Simorgh for the Best Actor in a Leading Role which went to Amir Jadidi and another Crystal Simorgh for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role that was presented to Sahar Dolatshahi.

It has also attended a number of international film events, including the 2018 Cinema and Human Rights Festival in France.

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