Zar Amir Ebrahimi Among Top Nordic Film Market Award Winners
deadline.comThe Göteborg Film Festival’s Nordic Film Market announced its production award winners during a ceremony this evening and Holy Spider actor Zar Amir Ebrahimi was among the top honorees.
Ebrahimi won the Tint Post-Production Award, valued at 400,000 SEK (36,000 USD), for her solo directorial debut Honor of Persia.
The film is produced by Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Ebrahimi, and Jacob Jarek. Described by the festival as a “brave new work,” the film’s synopsis reads: An old explicit tape is leaked, and Ava Rad, a beloved star of Iranian TV and cinema adored by the religious Guardians of the Islamic Revolution and Iran’s cultural elite, begins a descent into hell.
A story of betrayal, a tragicomic portrait of a truly schizophrenic country, between religious totalitarianism and the extravagance of a youth under pressure.
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