The 2016 CineIran Festival was held at TIFF Bell Lightbox, October 14th-16th. The festival kicked off with a screening of Hooman Seyyedi's critically acclaimed Sound & Fury, which went on to win the festival's People's Choice Award, a prize it shared with Reza Dormishian's Lantouri. The festival's guests included actress Gohar Kheirandish, actors Farhad Aslani and Bahram Radan, director Soudabeh Moradian, and producer Amir Parvinhosseini.

CineIran 2016: Screening Schedule

Opening Film: Sound & Fury (Hooman Seyyedi)
Zapas (Borzu Niknejad)
Polaris (Soudabeh Moradian)
Drought & Lies (Pedram Alizadeh)
Lantouri (Reza Dormishian)
It Happened One Night (Tina Pakravan)
Paradise (Ali Atshani)
Born in 1987 (Majid Tavakolli)
Daughter (Reza Mirkarimi)
Rabidity (Amir Ahmad Ansari)
Closing Film: Inversion (Behnam Behzadi)

 

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