The Descendants (2015 film)

The Descendants (Persian: Farzandan. فرزندان ) is a 2015 Iranian Tele film directed by Yaser Talebi and produced by Mitra Roohimanesh. The plot concerns an Iranian Jewish man Jacob, played by Hasan Rostamani, who travels to Sweden to look for his son.

The Descendants
Directed byYaser Talebi
Screenplay byTamana Rastgar

Hamid Rassoulpor

Yaser Talebi
Produced byMitra Roohimanesh
StarringHassan Rostamani

Viktoria Lushnikova
Mehrtash Saeidi

Hossein Mirzagholi
CinematographyMahmoodreza Mafi
Edited byYaser Talebi
Music byPeyman Yazdanian
Release date
  • 2015 (2015)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryIran
LanguagePersian-English-Swedish

Awards

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The film was awarded Best Foreign Film Award at the Royal Star Film Festival in Detroit,[1] and best film award at Formosa Festival of International Filmmaker Awards in Taiwan.[2] Other awards include: Best Feature Award and Best Director at 6th Urban international film festival, in Iran 2017, Best Feature Award (the 2017 Yonder Winner) at Longleaf Film Festival North Carolina Museum of History, 2017. Best Feature Film at the Pembroke Taparelli Arts and Film Festival Narrative Features International competition, U.S.A. 2016 Best Feature Film at Accolade Global Film Competition Award 2016. Best Board of Director Feature Film at North Carolina Film Award Fall, U.S.A, 2015, and Best Feature Film at The JP2 Inter-Faith Film Festival's Reel Rose Awards, U.S.A, 2015.[3]

References

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  1. ^ The Iranian Film Report Iranian-29 Oct 2017 "No, not the 2011 George Clooney film co-written by the dean on NBC's Community. New Iranian filmmaker Yaser Talebi's 2015 debut Farzandan (“The Descendants”) was awarded Best Foreign Film Award at the Royal Star Film Festival in Detroit. The Tehran Times describes it as “An Iranian Jewish man ...
  2. ^ 'The Descendants' wins at Formosa Filmfest. Mehr News Agency - English Version-23 Dec 2017 'The Descendants' directed by Yaser Talebi and produced by Mitra Roohimanesh won the best film award at Formosa Festival of International Filmmaker Awards in Taiwan.
  3. ^ "The Descendants". 27 September 2015.