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22nd Fajr Film Festival nominees are announced

The nominees for the crystal Simorgh in all Iranian competition sections of the 22nd Fajr International Film Festival, including features, shorts, documentaries, and 1st and 2nd-time directors, announced yesterday evening, are as follows (special awards including art & experiment award will be announced in the closing ceremony):

Best Special Effects
Mehri Shirazi (Afghan Bride)
Mehrdad Mirkiani (3 Narratives)
Mehrdad Mirkiani (Sacred Footsteps)
Mahin Navidi (Mums Guest)
Massoud Valadbeigi (Duel)

Best Set & Costume Design
Amir-hossein Esbati (Duel)
Siamak Ehsayi (Sacred Footsteps)
Iraj Raminfar (Winning Card)
Mohsen Shah-ebrahimi (Mums Guest)
Keivan Moghaddam (Beautiful City)

Best Sound
Eshagh Khanzadi (Soldiers Friday)
Hasan Zahedi (Beautiful City)
Nezamoddin Kiayi (Candle In the Wind)
Mehran Malakouti (Fathers Farm)
Jahangir Mirshekari (Mums Guest)

Best Sound Mix
Massoud Behnam/Hamid Naghibi (Duel)
Mohammad-reza Delpak (Tradition of Killing Lovers)
Mohammad-reza Delpak (3 Narratives)
Mohsen Roshan (Sacred Footsteps)
Amir-hossein Ghasemi (Butterfly In the Wind)

Best Supporting Actress
Ahou Kheradmand (Beautiful City)
Merila Zareee (Soldiers of Friday)
Farideh Sepah-mansour (Mums Guest)
Afarin Obeisi (Sacred Footsteps)
Hourieh Mirmohammadi (Tradition of Killing Lovers)

Best Supporting Actor
Bizhan Emkanian (Soldiers of Friday)
Parsa Pirouzfar (Mums Guest)
Saeed Poursamimi (Equivalence)
Shahab Hosseini (Candle In the Wind)
Kambiz Dirbaz (Duel)
Faramarz Gharibian (Beautiful City)

Best Editor
Shahrzad Pouya (Beautiful City)
Hasan Hasandoust (Tradition of Killing Lovers)
Mostafa Kherghepoush (Duel)
Bahram Dehghani (Fathers Farm)
Hossein Mouini (Candle In the Wind)

Best Musical Score
Majid Entezami (Duel)
Saeed Shabani (Good-bye, Pal)
Mohammad-reza Aligholi (Sacred Footsteps)
Peiman Yazdanian (Tradition of Killing Lovers)
Peiman Yazdanian (Fathers Farm)

Best Cinematography
Mohammad Alad-poush (Gavkhouni)
Rasoul Ahadi (Fathers Farm)
Bahram Badakhshani (Duel)
Alireza Zarrindast (Breakfast For 2)
Ali Loghmani (Beautiful City)

Best Actress
Golab Adineh (Mums Guest)
Gohar Kheir-andish (Tradition of Killing Lovers)
Taraneh Alidousti (Beautiful City)
Golshifteh Farahani (Tears of the Cold)
Fatemeh Motamed-aria (3 Narratives)
Roya Nonahali (Soul-mate)

Best Actor
Babak Ansari (Beautiful City)
Pejman Bazeghi (Duel)
Parviz Parastouyi (Lizard)
Hasan Pourshirazi (Mums Guest)
Bahram Radan (Candle In the Wind)
Reza Naji (He)

Best Screenplay
Mohammad Rezayi-rad (Sacred Footsteps)
Asghar Farhadi (Beautiful City)
Peiman Ghasem-khani (Lizard)
Rahbar Ghanbari (He)
Khosro Masoumi (Tradition of Killing Lovers)
Daryoush Mehrjouyi/Houshang Moradi-kermani/Vahideh Mohammadi-far (Mums Guest)

Best Director
Sirous Alvand (Winning Card)
Ahmad-reza Darvish (Duel)
Mohammad-mehdi Asgarpour (Sacred Footsteps)
Asghar Farhadi (Beautiful City)
Daryoush Mehrjouyi (Mums Guest)

Best Film
Duel (Farhang Tamasha)
Tradition of Killing Lovers (Mahmoud Fallah)
Beautiful City (Iraj Taghipour)
Sacred Footsteps (Mohammad-reza Takht-keshian)
Mums Guest (Daryoush Mehrjouyi)

Best Short Film
Hole (Vahid Nasirian)
The White-winged (Abdollah Alimorad)
Dragonfly Storm (Shahram Mokri)
Victim (Panah-bar-khoda Rezayi)
Paper of the Wind (Ali Zamani Esmati)

Best Documentary
Flying Messrs (Reza Bahrami-nezhad)
From Shams to Shams (Orod Attarpour)
Window (Behzad Rasoulzadeh)
Ash & Fantasy (Mostafa Goudarzi)
Oil Finders (Hormoz Emami)

1st & 2nd films
He (Rahbar Ghanbari)
Boutique (Hamid Nematollah)
Beautiful City (Asghar Farhadi)
Dragonfly Storm (Shahram Mokri)
Sacred Footsteps (Mohammad-mehdi Asgarpour)
Source: Shot4u Studios