The traditional closing-night party saw revellers celebrating until breakfast.
Iranian director Dornaz Hajiha’s Like A Fish On The Moon won the Transilvania Trophy, the top prize of the international competition at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania at a gala ceremony on Saturday June 17.
Hajiha’s debut feature premiered at in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition in 2022 and is being handled internationally by Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows It also picked up the best performance award for the lead actress Sepidar Tari ex aequo with Nacho Quesada, who plays the lead role in Andrew Sala’s France-Argentina film The Barbarians.
Iranian director Dornaz Hajiha’s Like A Fish On The Moon won the Transilvania Trophy, the top prize of the international competition at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania at a gala ceremony on Saturday June 17.
Hajiha’s debut feature premiered at in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition in 2022 and is being handled internationally by Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows It also picked up the best performance award for the lead actress Sepidar Tari ex aequo with Nacho Quesada, who plays the lead role in Andrew Sala’s France-Argentina film The Barbarians.
- 6/19/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The traditional closing-night party saw revellers celebrating until breakfast.
Iranian director Dornaz Hajiha’s Like A Fish On The Moon won the Transilvania Trophy, the top prize of the international competition at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania at a gala ceremony on Saturday June 17.
Hajiha’s debut feature premiered at in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition in 2022 and is being handled internationally by Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows It also picked up the best performance award for the lead actress Sepidar Tari ex aequo with Nacho Quesada, who plays the lead role in Andrew Sala’s France-Argentina film The Barbarians.
Iranian director Dornaz Hajiha’s Like A Fish On The Moon won the Transilvania Trophy, the top prize of the international competition at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Romania at a gala ceremony on Saturday June 17.
Hajiha’s debut feature premiered at in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition in 2022 and is being handled internationally by Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows It also picked up the best performance award for the lead actress Sepidar Tari ex aequo with Nacho Quesada, who plays the lead role in Andrew Sala’s France-Argentina film The Barbarians.
- 6/19/2023
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Like a Fish on the Moon, the feature debut of Iranian writer-director Dornaz Hajiha, has won the Transilvania Trophy for best feature film at this year’s festival, marking the first time in the event’s 22-year history that Transilvania International Film Festival’s top award went to a female director.
The film follows new parents who are forced to adapt when their apparently healthy son suddenly stops talking.
“The film we have chosen impressed us for the originality of its premise, the power of its performances and the intelligence with which it explored very difficult subject matter,” Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, the jury president, said in a statement. “The director demonstrated great attention to detail and an impressive, singular vision. We were also impressed by the script, which captured the often conflicting pressures of parenthood, the brutality of devotion. It is a film that resonated long after it ended.
The film follows new parents who are forced to adapt when their apparently healthy son suddenly stops talking.
“The film we have chosen impressed us for the originality of its premise, the power of its performances and the intelligence with which it explored very difficult subject matter,” Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, the jury president, said in a statement. “The director demonstrated great attention to detail and an impressive, singular vision. We were also impressed by the script, which captured the often conflicting pressures of parenthood, the brutality of devotion. It is a film that resonated long after it ended.
- 6/19/2023
- by Stjepan Hundic
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Family is the hotbed for many things, positive and negative, usually negative. One problem might multiply and make the situations escalate quickly. One such Iranian family stands in the focus of the film “Like a Fish on the Moon” written and directed by the up and coming filmmaker Dornaz Hajiha. The film premiered at the newly established Proxima competition at Karlovy Vary.
We know that something is wrong in the seemingly idyllic lives of Haleh (Sepidar Tari) and Amir (Shahdyar Shakiba) right from the very start, and we know what the problem is exactly: their son Ilya (Ali Ahmadi) has stopped talking suddenly and apparently for no reason. Other than that, their lives seem perfectly normal for members of the middle class in the urban areas of Iran. They both work, they have a place to live and a car to drive and Ilya has toys and video-games to play with.
We know that something is wrong in the seemingly idyllic lives of Haleh (Sepidar Tari) and Amir (Shahdyar Shakiba) right from the very start, and we know what the problem is exactly: their son Ilya (Ali Ahmadi) has stopped talking suddenly and apparently for no reason. Other than that, their lives seem perfectly normal for members of the middle class in the urban areas of Iran. They both work, they have a place to live and a car to drive and Ilya has toys and video-games to play with.
- 7/9/2022
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
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