Narges Abyar
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Narges Abyar | |
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نرگس آبیار | |
 Abyar in 37th Fajr Film Festival | |
| Born | 8 August 1970 |
| Occupation(s) | Author, film director, screen writer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Spouse | Mohammad Hossein Ghasemi |
Narges Abyar (Persian: نرگس آبیار, also romanized as Narges Ābyār; born 8 August 1970) is an Iranian film director, author, and screenwriter,[1] best known for directing Track 143, Breath, and When the Moon Was Full.[2] The film Track 143 is adapted from Abyar's novel titled The Third Eye narrating the story of a woman and her son during the time of war.[3] Her films sensitively picture the sufferings of women and children caused by the society, war or radicalism.
Narges Abyar graduated in Persian literature; she started writing books in 1997. So far, she has written over thirty story and fiction books for children, young adults, and adults.[4]
Biography
[edit]Abyar graduated in Persian literature; she has written several story and fiction books for children, young adults, and adults.[citation needed] She began her directing career with the film Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear in 2005 and some short films and documentaries, most of them about the Iran–Iraq War.[5]
Although she has written four drama films, she has also made several short and feature-length documentaries since 2005. Her first experience in fiction was “The Kind Dead-End,”; the winner of the best short film of the Setayesh Festival and in several international festivals were also presented for the competition section.
Personal life
[edit]Abyar is the wife of producer Mohammad Hossein Ghasemi.[6]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Ref. |
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| 2014 | Track 143 | [7] |
| 2015 | Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear | [8] |
| 2016 | Breath | [9] |
| 2019 | When the Moon Was Full | [10] |
| 2021 | Pinto | [11] |
Web
[edit]| Year | Title | Platform | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | Savushun | Sheida | [12] |
Documentary
[edit]- The Kind Dead-End (fiction, 15 min, 2006)
- The Story of a Believable Story (fiction, 2007)
- One Day After the 10th Day; winner of the Best Documentary of the Egyptian Ismaili Festival; Grand Prize of the Batumi Festival, Georgia; Cinematic Success Award for AZA Festival, Greece; Honor Diploma from the Iguana Festival, Italy; The Best Documentary of the Ashura Image Contest and Participating in the 35 World Festivals[13][14]
- The Day of the End (documentary, 2008); The Best Documentary of the Semi-Long; Film of Cinema Verite Festival; Best Documentary Award for Ashura Art Mourning Festival
- Mother of the City (documentary, 2008); Best Film Award and Best Semi-long Script of Yazd Sacrificial Festival
- Ulcer (Nasur) (fiction, 2009); Best Short Film Festival of the Holy Defense Festival; Best Film Festival for Three Decades of Presence; Attending the Plant Focus Festival of Greece and Dhaka, Bangladesh)
- Shirpooshan (documentary, 2010 ); nominee for Best Documentary Award for the Grand Ave Festival, Poland
Books
[edit]Some of her novels are[citation needed]:
- Mountain on the shoulder of the tree (Kooh rooye shaneh-ha-ye derakht); Winner of the Best Sacred Defense 2004 novel
- A Boy with insatiable worms on his body (Pesar-e kerm be doosh & khandagh-e balaa); Literary Prize of Isfahan & Selected Top Book Festival
- Third Eye (Cheshm-e sevvom); Nominated for the Best Sacred Defense 2006 Novel
- The Legend of A Skinny Spring (Afsaneh-ye cheshmeh-ye laghar-mordani); Winner of the Nobel Prize of Salambacheha & Winner of the Literary Writers
- It was neither a day nor night (Na shab bood-o na rooz); Lady Cultural Literary Award
- The Poems of a sky-clad fish (She'r-ha-ye yek mahi-ye siyah-e asemoon-jol); Selected in Top Book Festival
- Story of Two Fives (Dastan-e do panj); Selected in Top Book Festival
- The Agitated Existence of a Prosperous (Zendegi-ye ghambar-e yek bot-e khoshbakht)
Awards[citation needed]
[edit]- Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear (2013)
16th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), Shanghai, China
30th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPF), Los Angeles, California, USA
Heartland Film Festival 2014, USA
Silver Akbuzat Film Festival, UFA, RUSSIA, 2014; Winner of the Audience Award & the Best Actress Award
Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France, 2015; Winner of the Best Film Prize
- Track 143 (2014)
BUSAN FFS., KOREA, October 2014
Hawaii FF, USA, 2014, October 2014
Int’l FF of India, Goa, 2014; November 2014
SIingapre FF; December 2014
Int’l FF of Kerala, India, December 2014
Asia-Pacific Screen Awards, 2014
Winner of the Special Jury Award for the Actress from 1st Reel 7
Sydney FF, Australia, June 2015 & Audience Choice Award Winner
22nd Aichi Women FF, September 2015, Japan
11th Kazan Muslim Cinema Film Festival, Sep. 2015, Russia
8th International Film festival of “East-West”, Orenburg, Sep. 2015, Russia; Winner of the Best Direction & Best Actress Award
Golden Rooster & Hundred Flowers Film Festival, China, Sep. 2015
International Film Festival in Volokolamsk, Nov. 2015, Russia; Winner of the Jury's Special Award
8th Jaipur Int’l Film Festival, Jan. 2016, India; Winner of the Best Women Film Award
14th Dhaka Int’l Film Festival, Jan. 2016, Bangladesh; Winner of the Best Women Film Award
Menar Sofia Film Festival, Hungry, Jan. 2016
Second International Film Festival of "Golden Tower" Ingushetia, Russia 2015; Winner of the Best Film Award
Aichi Women Film Festival, Japan, 2015, Hiroshima Peace Film Festival, Japan
- Breath "Nafas" (2015)
Iran's representative at the 2018 Academy Awards
received the Simorgh Zarrin, the best film in the national section of the thirty-fourth Fajr Film Festival
winner of the Crystal Simorgh Best Supporting Actress (Shabnam Moghadami) from the thirty-fourth year Fajr Film Festival
Get a Statue of Best Supporting Actress from the Celebration of Iran's Criticts and Writers Association
Getting the Best Female Actor (Pantea panacea) Simorgh from the Fajr International Film Festival
Appreciation to Sayyeda Sare Nurmosavi for the film “Breath” from the 14th Resistance Film Festival
The Special Jury Award for the best film on the subject of the Islamic Revolution was awarded to Narges Abyar for the film “Breath” from the 14th Resistance Film Festival
the nominee for the Crystal Simorgh Best Design and Costume (Asghar Nejad Imani)
the nominee for the Statue of Best Visual Effects (Farid Nazerfasihi)
the nominee for the Best Statue of Musical Instrument (Masoud Sekhavat Doust) and Best Makeup (Mehrdad Mirkiani)
Participation in the 20th Tallinn Black Eyes Film Festival, Estonia, and getting the Best Director award
Participation in the 3rd Asia-Pacific Film Festival in e, Australia, and the Best Children's Film Award for the 10th Asia Pacific Film Award, Australia
Attendance at the 15th Pune Film Festival, India
Attendance at the 8th Sofia Film Festival in Bulgaria
Attendance at the Iranian Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Attendance at the 27th Iranian Film Festival, Chicago, USA
Screening at the Polytechnic University of Milan
Screening at Massimo Turin, Italy
Attendance at the Twelfth Women's Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada, and getting the Best Actress Award at the First Iranian Film Festival in Wisconsin, USA
Screening at Inies hall, Toronto, Canada
Attendance at the Twenty-eighth Iranian Film Festival at the University of UCLA, USA
Attendance at the 4th Cannes Film Festival in Cologne, Germany
Attendance at the 3rd Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland and winning the Best; Film Prize of Audience
Screening at 2nd hall in Montreal's Park
Attendance at the Iranian Film Festival at the University of California In Irvine, Orange County, USA
Attending the 6th Australian Film Festival and Receiving Jury Awards
Attending the Arab and Islamic Film Festival in Tübingen, Germany
Attending the Twenty-fourth; Film Festival of Women wave, Taiwan
Screening at Kabul University's Iranian Studies Department, Afghanistan
Attending the 41st São Paulo Film Festival, Brazil
Attendance at the Third Asia Film Festival in Los Angeles, USA
Attending the 7th Iranian Film Festival in Australia
Attending the Twenty-fourth Minsk Film Festival, Belarus, winning the Best Director and Best Actor of Children and Youth (Sara Noor Mousavi)
Attending the Iranian Contemporary Cinema Festival: New Sounds, Yerevan, Armenia - Screening at the Cinema Club in Geneva, Switzerland
Attending the Forty-eighth India Film Festival in Goa The New Delhi-India Children's Smile Film Festival, India
Screening at the Burlington Performing Arts Center, Vermont, USA
Screening at the Iranian-American Center in Washington DC, USA
Attending; the 23rd Iranian Film Festival in Boston, USA
Attending the Festival "For Your Notice" at Mill Valley, United States
invited to the 23rd Iranian Film Festival in Washington, DC, USA
Attending the 5th Orangabad Film Festival, India
Attending the 25th Iranian Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, USA
Screening at Canadian Cinematics, Vancouver
Attending the Thirty-Third Festival Santa Barbara's movie, America.
Attending The Iranian Film Festival at the Iranian Film Institute in Silverrass Pearls, USA
Attending the Thrissur Film Festival, India
Attendance at Princeton Garden Theater, USA
Attendance at the Twenty-fifth Titanic Film Festival in Budapest, Hungary.
When the Moon Was Full is a 2019 Iranian drama movie written and directed by Narges Abyar. It narrates the real story of Abdolhamid Rigi's marriage. This movie was produced by Mohammad Hossein Qassemi and won the Crystal Simorgh for the best film in 37th Fajr film festival. Also, the movie was awarded Crystal Simorgh for Best Director Narges Abyar.
Winner of the Audience Award in the 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia
Winner of The Grand Prize of the Jury, The Student Award, and The Best Performance Award at the 2nd edition of the Carcassonne International Political Film Festival in France, 2019
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "بیوگرافی نرگس آبیار" (in Persian). Retrieved October 20, 2015.
- ^ "ایده اصلی فیلم شیار ۱۴۳ را از کتاب چشم سوم گرفتم". Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ^ "گفتوگو با نرگس آبیار، برنده سیمرغ جشنواره فجر". Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ "شیار ۱۴۳ در اسلامشهر اکران میشود". November 19, 2014.
- ^ "زندگینامه: نرگس آبیار (۱۳۴۹-)". February 19, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ ""ازدواج نرگس آبیار با تهیهکننده شیار ۱۴۳"". Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ Track 143 (2014) - IMDb, 12 November 2014, retrieved 2021-08-22
- ^ Objects in Mirror (2013) - IMDb, 6 August 2015, retrieved 2021-08-22
- ^ Breath (2016) - IMDb, 9 November 2016, retrieved 2021-08-22
- ^ When the Moon Was Full (2019) - IMDb, 5 June 2019, retrieved 2021-08-22
- ^ Ablagh (2021) - IMDb, February 2021, retrieved 2021-08-22
- ^ "بهنوش طباطبایی به عنوان اولین بازیگر سریال سووشون انتخاب شد". خبرگزاری موج (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-08-22.
- ^ "A catalogue page at random". Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "ONE DAY AFTER THE TENTH DAY". Retrieved 26 October 2015.
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