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Tribeca Film Festival
The award winners for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival have been announced. We
have the results: top winners include About Elly, North, Racing
Dreams, and Fixer.
About Elly
The winners of the 2009 Tribeca Film
Festival's competition categories were announced tonight. The top
awards went to
About Elly,
North,
Racing Dreams, and
Fixer: The Taking of Amjal Naqshbandi, and more
awards were handed out for the best Shorts (narrative, documentary, and student
visionary), the Best New York films (Here
and There,
Partly Private). Acting awards and several Special
Jury Mentions were also announced.
Co-founder Jane Rosenthal said, "I am delighted that we have awarded films from
such diverse origins, helping to launch careers, establish names and tell
stories that would otherwise not be told. I wish all of the filmmakers continued
success and hope that they continue to bring their works back to Tribeca."
All winning films will screen at the AMC Village VII on Sunday, May 3.
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here for more information.
Press Release
Best Narrative Feature: About Elly
Asghar Farhadi's Iranian mystery
on the Caspian Sea captured the hearts of World Narrative Feature Jurors
Bradley Cooper, Uma Thurman, Todd Haynes, Meg Ryan and Richard Fischoff:
"The universality of the characters and themes and the director's riveting grasp
of this story make About Elly a film that collapses
barriers and deepens our understanding of the world we share." High praise,
indeed, but fully merited.
Q&A:
About Elly
Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi
is one of the most respected and acclaimed Iranian filmmakers working today.
About Elly, his fourth feature, recently earned
him the Silver Bear (Best Director prize) at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. He's
no stranger to festival success: his prior film, TFF '07 alum
Fireworks Wednesday, won Best Feature at the
Chicago International Film Festival in 2006, and his first two features,
Dancing in the Dust and Beautiful City,
also won significant awards at the Moscow, Warsaw and India International Film
Festivals.
About Elly
2009 | 119 min |
Feature Narrative
Cast & Credits
Primary Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidousti, Mani
Haghighi, Merila Zarei, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini
Director: Asghar Farhadi, Iran
Screenwriter: Asghar Farhadi
Producer: Mahmoud Razavi, Asghar Farhadi
Editor: Hayedeh Safiyari
Director of Photography: Hossein Jafarian
Sound Mixer: Mohammad-Reza Delpak
Production Company: Simaye Mehr
Asghar Farhadi
Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972, Isfahan, Iran) took courses at the Iranian Young Cinema
Society and started his career making Super 8 and 16mm films. He earned a
master's degree in film from Tehran University in 1998. During his studies, he
wrote plays for national radio and directed television shows like Tale of a
City. Farhadi wrote the screenplay for Ebrahim Hatamikia's box office
success Low Heights. His directing credits include Dancing in the Dust,
Beautiful City, named best feature at the Warsaw and India film
festivals, and the award-winning Fireworks Wednesday.
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