The Iranian director became the first female winner of the main prize of the Transylvania Festival
The film “Like a Fish on the Moon” directed by Darnaz Hajiha won the top prize of the 2023 Transylvania Film Festival.
Charso Press: According to Variety, Darnaz Hajiha, an Iranian filmmaker, the top prize of the film festival Transylvania took home
board The judges of this festival are the main prize Transylvania was awarded for “Like a fish on the moon” to the director’s first film. This movie is a family drama shaking The Giver is about parents who have to deal with various problems when their little son suddenly stops talking.
Michel Franco Mexican filmmaker from board By emphasizing the originality of the premise, the power of the performances and the intelligence with which a very difficult subject is portrayed, the judges called “Like a Fish on the Moon” a film that will be remembered long after its end.
Hajiha received his award on stage from Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who won the Transylvania Lifetime Achievement Award.
He said: “It is an honor to receive this award and I thank you for your wonderful speech.” I am very impressed and very happy to receive this award from Geoffrey Rush. Hajiha thanked Sepidar Tari who received the best acting award of the festival jointly with Nacho Quesada for “Barbers” and said: “I am very happy that the members board The judges understood this film as such.
He added: I really think it doesn’t matter if you are a 5-year-old child or a 50-year-old woman. If you have to do something, even if it seems normal, you just feel suffocated and trapped, and you may choose to stay silent.
The victory of this Iranian director marked a historic night because for the first time the main prize of the Transylvania Festival was awarded to a female director.
In this ceremony, the Brazilian Carolina Markovic received the best director award for the black comedy “Charcoal” and the Finnish Tia Kovo received the special award for “Family Time”. board He won the judges.
In the Romanian Days competition, documentary filmmaker Vlad Petri won the top prize for “Between Revolutions.” The award for the best first film of this section was also given to Andrey Tanase for “Tiger Day”.
In this ceremony, an award was also given to the Romanian actor Horacio Malhele, and at the same time, the American director Oliver Stone was also honored with an award for a lifetime of artistic achievement.
The film “Woman, Man, Child” which is internationally known as “Like a Fish on the Moon” was the only representative of Iran in the Transylvania 2023 competition, and the films “World War III” by Homan Sidi, “Subtraction” by Mani Haghighi and the series “Actor” by Nima Javidi was shown in the side sections of this film event.
The 22nd Transylvania Film Festival in Romania ended on Saturday night.