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Iranian filmmaker wins top honors at NYIFA for short film Sculpture/Soratgar

Iranian filmmaker wins top honors at NYIFA for short film Sculpture/Soratgar
Iranian filmmaker Ramin Hosseinpour, writer, director, and producer of the short film Sculpture / Soratgar (The Portrait Maker), won the Best Director and Best Short Screenplay awards at the New York International Film Awards in December 2024 and January 2025.

This renowned festival, in its sixth edition, selects films through preliminary, semifinal, and final stages. Selected films are screened monthly at The Producers Club in Manhattan, New York, with public screenings set for January 20, 2025.

Soratgar is a short documentary based on the lives of Molavi or Rumi, the great Iranian poet, and his spiritual instructor Shams Tabrizi in 642 AH. It is currently in contention for the Academy Awards, BAFTA, and other prestigious honors in 2026, and ranks among IMDb’s Top 50 Short Films and Documentaries of 2025.

Previously, Soratgar secured third place at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in 2022, in the US, and earned nominations at the 78th FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO, in Italy, and the Crown Point International Film Festival in 2024 in Chicago, the US.

Key collaborators on Soratgar include cinematographer Ali Ehsani, editor Ehsan Vaseghi, and artistic director Mohammad Nazari.

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Iranian film ‘Sculpture’ wins two awards at Chicago festival

Iranian filmmaker Ramin Hosseinpour was awarded at the Crown Point International Film Festival (CPIFF) in Chicago, winning the award for Best Director of a Short Film for his documentary ‘Sculpture.’
Hosseinpour, who also wrote and produced the film, picked up the award at the 45th edition of the festival, which was held in September 2024. The film’s editor, Ehsan Vaseghi, also won the award for Best Editing, Mehr News Agency reported.
The CPIFF, which has been running for 45 years, will showcase the winning films on screens in Chicago for a week and present the winners with a cash prize and a trophy at its annual awards ceremony, to be held in three months.
‘Sculpture’ is a documentary short film based on the true story of the lives of Rumi and Shams. The film is currently competing to qualify for the Academy Awards in the United States and Canada, as well as the BAFTAs. It has also been ranked among the top 50 short films and documentaries on IMDb.
Hosseinpour, who combines cinema, architecture, and music in his work, has won several international awards in the past

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