The Night Guardian (Persian: نگهبان شب, romanized: Negahban-e Shab) is a 2022 Iranian drama film directed and produced by Reza Mirkarimi and written by Mirkarimi and Mohammad Davoudi. The film screened for the first time at the 40th Fajr Film Festival and received 9 nominations, where Mirkarimi won the award for Best Director and Aliakbar Osanloo received an Honorary Diploma for his acting. It was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
Premise The film is about a naive young village boy named Rasool (Touraj Alvand) whose quiet and carefree life is challenged by the trusting Behnam (Mohsen Kiaee), who is the engineer of a construction project.
Cast
Touraj Alvand as Rasool Laleh Marzban as Nasibeh Aliakbar Osanloo Safoura Khoshtinat Mohsen Kiaee as Behnam Vishka Asayesh Kiumars Pourahmad Fahimeh Hormozi Zahra Eslami Parham Gholamlou Mohammad Sadegh Malek Ali Ghabeshi Mehrad Akbarabadi Iman Salgi Navid Bani
Reception
Accolades YearAwardCategoryRecipientResult2022Fajr Film FestivalBest FilmReza MirkarimiBest DirectorReza MirkarimiBest ScreenplayReza Mirkarimi and Mohammad DavoudiBest ActorTouraj AlvandBest ActressLaleh MarzbanBest Supporting ActorAliakbar OsanlooBest Supporting ActressSafoora KhoshtinatBest Sound EffectsAmirhossein GhasemiBest Costume DesignZahra Samadi
See also List of submissions to the 96th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film List of Iranian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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