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10th Edition

The 10th Persian Film Festival was held from April 26 to May 07 at Palace Cinemas. The program included an official competition in feature, documentary and short film categories and toured to Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide after opening in Sydney.

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10th EditionAdmin2025-09-10T07:48:42+00:00

Official Selection

Winners

Best Feature

Opponent

Best Short

I’m Trying to Remember

Pegah Ahangarani

Festival Juries

Martin McGrath
2023
Anna Cater
2023
Remy Hii
2023
Samantha Lang
2023
MahVeen Shahraki
2023
Nicole Chamoun
2023

Resistance Cinema

For Woman Life Freedom

Commemorating the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, the festival will celebrate the many years of resistance in Iranian cinema and showcase films by imprisoned and exilic filmmakers, as well as films that have been banned in Iran

Filmmakers

Pegah Ahangarani
2025
Reza Radjoo
2023
Mohammad Reza Khavari
2023
Ali Daraee
2023
Atefeh Salehi
2023
Emad Arad
2023
Ziba Karamali
2023
Farnoosh Abedi
2023
Maryam Esmikhani
2023
Ali Behrad
2023
Maryam Zaree
2023
Ehsan Mirhosseini
2023
Bardia Yadegari
2023
Mojgan Ilanlou
2023
Jahangir Kosari
2023
Ali Abbasi
2023
Sepideh Farsi
2023
Arsalan Amiri
2023
Sohrab Shahid Saless
2023
Milad Alami
2018
Majid Barzegar
2017
Mohammad Rasoulof
2016

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We acknowledge Australia’s First Nations People as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land, and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, upon whose Country the festival is based. We honour the storytelling and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.

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