Reza Farahmand

Reza Farahmand (Persian: رضا فرهمند) (born c. 1977, in Birjand, South Khorasan)[1] is an Iranian film director, most known for documentary films.

Reza Farahmand
NationalityIranian
OccupationFilm director

Films
  • 2010: Climbing Room [2]
  • 2013 No Honking Please![2][3]
  • 2014 Freedom (feature-length documentary co-directed with Kamil Soheili) - The film is about the cruelty of hunting of migratory birds in the wetlands of Fereydunkenar County using illegal bird trap nets.[1][4]
  • 2015: Swallow [Persook, پرسوک][5][6]
  • 2015 Forgotten Childhood
  • 2017: Women with Gunpowder Earrings [Zanani ba gooshvarehaye barooti] [7] - In the film an Iraqi female journalist Noor Al Helli reports about Syrian and Iraqi refugee women and children from the families of ISIL.[8][9][10]
  • 2019: Copper Notes of a Dream [Notha -ye- mesi yek roya] - It was selected for the 13th Cinema Verite [11] and for the Camden International Film Festival. The film chronicles a period in the life of Malook, a ten-year-old Palestinian refugee who lives in a ravaged area of Damascus. To finance the organization of a concert with professional musicians (he dreams of being a singer), he and his friends take the copper wiring from ruined buildings to sell. They write apologies on the walls in case the previous occupants ever return.[12] Steve Dollar, who saw the documentary at Camden, commented in Filmmaker that "the story is as quietly heartbreaking as it is hopeful in the childrens' [sic] zest not only to abide but to transform the damaged world around them".[13] The film was selected for the national competition at Cinema Verite,[14] and was shown at the Olympia film festival in Greece.[15]

Awards
  • Climbing Room : "Crystal Simurgh", the best short and mid-documentary film award from 28th Fajr International Film Festival, Iran[16]
  • Women with Gunpowder Earrings:
    • Main award of the 16th Signes de Nuit international film festival in France[9]
    • Best Documentary Award at the 8th ÍRÁN:CI, the Festival of Iranian Films in Prague, Brno and Bratislava[9]
    • Best feature-length documentary of 2017 at the 11th Cinema Verite, an Iranian documentary film festival.[11]

References
  1. "رضا فرهمند با دو فیلم مستند "قربانی" و "آزادی" در سینماحقیقت (Reza Farahmand with two documentaries "Victim" and "Freedom" in Cinema Vérité)". Cinema Vérité Iran Int'l Documentary Festival News. October 26, 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  2. "Reza Farahmand", a profile at Locarno Film Festival
  3. 43rd Roshd International Film Festival (PDF). Organization for Education Research and Planning Supplying Education Media Center. 2013. p. 130. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  4. "Ninth Cinema Verite International Festival", Iran Cine News, December 18, 2017
  5. "National Competition", p. 225, Iran Documentary Festival
  6. «پرسوک»؛ روایتی از زندگی ماهی‌فروش بوشهری با دختر آلمانی "Persuasion - a tale of a Bushehr fisherman's life with a German girl", Tasnim News, November 1, 2008
  7. "WOMEN WITH GUNPOWDER EARRING by Reza FARAHMAND", ArtHouse Cinematheque, 2018
  8. نشست خبری فیلم زنانی با گوشواره های باروتی| حسن مهدوی: صدا بردارمان شنوایی گوشش را در این مستند از دست داد! (Press Conference of Women in Gunpowder Earrings Hassan Mahdavi: The audio recorders lost their hearing in this documentary!), Tasnim News
  9. "Iranian Documentary on ISIL Women to Vie at 3 European Festivals", Fars News, February 24, 2019
  10. "WOMEN WITH GUNPOWDER EARRINGS - 2018 DOK Leipzig film archive"
  11. "Cinema Verite to screen Copper Notes of a Dream". Tehran Times. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  12. "Copper Notes of a Dream picked for Camden documentary film festival". Tehran Times. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  13. Dollar, Steve (27 September 2019). "Avoiding Festivalitis: 2019 Camden International Film Festival and Points North Pitch". Filmmaker. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  14. "Cinéma Vérité unveils national lineup". Tehran Times. 30 November 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  15. "Am I A Wolf? taking part at Olympia filmfest. in Greece". Mehr News Agency. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  16. «اتاق صعود»‌ سيمرغ بلورين بخش مستند كوتاه و نيمه‌بلند را دريافت كرد Fars News
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