Festival 2016

The 2016 Cyrus Festival ( Formerly 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.

Cyrus Festival 2016 ( Formerly Cineiran Festival) : 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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