Seven female directors to vie at Parvin Etesami Filmfest

Seven female Iranian filmmakers are to participate at the ninth Parvin Etesami Film Festival in Tehran.

The filmmakers are slated to compete at the best female filmmaker of the year award.

Niki Karimi with ‘Night Shift’, Aida Panahandeh with ‘Nahid’, Tina Pakravan with ‘Mrs.’, Narges Abyar with ‘Breath’, Azadeh Mogui with ‘Tragedy’, Marjan Ashrafizaeh with ‘Abji’ and Roqayyeh Tavakkoli with ‘Motherhood’ are the seven filmmakers that will contend for awards at the event.

The entries will compete in short film and feature sections, known as the Golden Lily and Silver Lily as well as other sections such as ˈthe influence of women on familiesˈ and ˈdistinguished Iranian womenˈ.

While Parvin Etesami Film Festival highlights films on women’s issues, the organizers of the festival plan to select a woman filmmaker as the best Iranian female director of the year.

Parvin Etesami was born in Tabriz and composed her first poem in the classical style when she was only eight years old.

Her poems focus on social awareness and the human aspect of life with simple yet insightful allegorical elements.

There are no signs of romanticism or feminism in her works, although she lived in the period when Iran was beginning to modernize.

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