# 38th Fajr Film Festival

The 38th Fajr Film Festival (Persian: سی و هشتمین جشنواره فیلم فجر) was held from 1 to 11 February 2020 in Tehran, Iran. The nominees for the 38th Fajr Film Festival were announced on February 10, 2020, at a press conference.

## Jury
### Main Competition

* Narges Abyar
* Touraj Aslani
* Abbas Blondie
* Reza Pour Hossein
* Fereydoun Jeyrani
* Saeed Rad
* Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour
* Tahmaseb Solhjoo
* Maziar Miri

### First Look, Short Film, Documentary

* Mehdi Jafari
* Rouhollah Hejazi
* Mostafa Razagh Karimi
* Fereshteh Taerpour
* Hadi Moghadamdoost

### Advertising Competition

* Mohammad Rouhollamin
* Amir Sheiban Khaghani
* Habib Majidi

## Winners and nominees
### Main Competition

| Best Director | Best Film |
| Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian – Walnut Tree Majid Majidi – Sun Children Niki Karimi – Atabai Morteza Farshbaf – Tooman Saeid Malekan – Day Zero Mohammad Kart – Drown | Sun Children Walnut Tree Atabai Day Zero Drown |
| Best Actress | Best Actor |
| Nazanin Ahmadi – The Rain Falls Where It Will as Sara Parinaz Izadyar – 3 Puffs as Nasim Maryam Moqadam – Ballad of a White Cow as Mina Neda Jebraeili – Drowning in Holy Water as Setareh Elnaz Shakerdoost – I'm Scared as | Payman Maadi – Walnut Tree as Ghader Molanpour Mirsaeed Molavian – Tooman as Davood Faramarz Gharibian – Exodus as Rahmat Amir Jadidi – Day Zero as Reza / Siavash Ali Shadman – Drowning in Holy Water as Sohrab |
| Best Supporting Actress | Best Supporting Actor |
| Tannaz Tabatabaei – Drown as Parvaneh Leila Zare – There Was Blood as Fatemeh Minoo Sharifi – Walnut Tree as Maryam Samira Hassanpour – 3 Puffs as Fariba Mirhadi Setareh Pesyani – I'm Scared as Baran Kosari – Popular as Afsaneh Shirkhodai | Amir Aghaei – Drown as Hashem Javad Ezzati – Atabai as Yahya Arshia Nikbin – The Rain Falls Where It Will as Mojtaba Pirzadeh – Tooman as Aziz Babak Karimi – Shahre Gheseh Cinema as |
| Best Cinematography Morteza Najafi – Tooman Saman Lotfian – Atabai Saman Lotfian – Drown Masoud Amini Tirani – The Rain Falls Where It Will Hooman Behmanesh – Sun Children Masoud Salami – 3 Puffs | Best Screenplay Nima Javidi, Majid Majidi – Sun Children Saeid Malekan, Bahram Tavakoli – Day Zero Mohammad Kart, Hossein Doomari, Pedram Pouramiri – Drown Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moqadam, Mehrdad Kouroshnia – Ballad of a White Cow Ali Zarnegar – Bone Marrow Behnam Behzadi, Sahar Sakhai – I'm Scared |
| Best Original Score | Best Editor |
| Bamdad Afshar – Skin Hossein Alizadeh – Atabai Ramin Kousha – Sun Children Habib Khazaeifar – Walnut Tree Masoud Sekhavatdoust – Drown | Esmaeil Alizade – Drown Mohammad Najarian – Skin Mohammad Najarian – Walnut Tree Hassan Hassandoost – Sun Children Maysam Molaei – Day Zero Siavash Pourkhalili – Shahre Gheseh Cinema |
| Best Sound Effects | Best Sound Recording |
| Arash Ghasemi – Drown Alireza Alavian – Skin Amin Sharifi – Tooman Arash Ghasemi – Exodus Mohammad Reza Delpak – Sun Children | Mehdi Salehkermani – Drown Amir Shahordi – Skin Rashid Daneshmand – Tooman Amir Nobakht – Exodus Hossein Bashash – Sun Children |
| Best Production Design | Best Costume Design |
| Keyvan Moghaddam – Sun Children Pouria Akhavan – Skin Mohamadreza Shojaei – Walnut Tree Soheil Danesheshraghi – Day Zero Aydin Zarif – Shahre Gheseh Cinema | Amir Malekpour – Day Zero Rasoul Alizadeh – Skin Maral Jeyrani – Exodus Behzad Jafari Tadi – Walnut Tree Sheideh Mohammadzadeh – Shahre Gheseh Cinema Ghazaleh Motamed – Drown |
| Best Special Effects | Best Makeup |
| Mohsen Roozbahani – Day Zero Arash Aghabeik – Skin Arash Aghabeik – Drown Iman Karamian – Sun Children Iman Karamian – Butterfly Stroke | Mehrdad Mirkiani – Exodus Mohammadreza Ghomi – There Was Blood Shahram Khalaj – Walnut Tree Iman Omidvari – 3 Puffs Azim Farain – Drown |
| Audience Choice of Best Film | Best Visual Effects |
| Rasul Sadr Ameli – Drown | Mohammad Baradaran – Exodus Javad Matoori – Abadan 11 60 Javad Matoori – Sun Children Amin Pahlavanzadeh, Kamyar Shafiepour – Walnut Tree Reza Misaghi, Mohsen Kheirabadi – Day Zero |
| Special Jury Prize | Best National Film |
| Saeid Malekan – Day Zero Rouhollah Zamani, Shamila Shirzad, Abolfazl Shirzad, Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Mousavifard – Sun Children (Honorary Diploma) | Saeid Malekan – Day Zero |
| Sardar Soleimani Award | Best Art & Experience Film |
| Abadan 11 60 – Hassan Kalami | Ark Brothers – Skin |
| Best Documentary | Best Short Film |
| No Place for Angels Lady The Marriage Project It Is Winter | Dabur Exam Alley |

### First Look

* Best First Film
* Day Zero
* Soundless
* Skin
* Drown
* The Undercover

### Advertising Competition

| Best Poster Design | Best Still Photography |
| Mohammad Taghi Pour – 23 People Ali Bagheri – Women With Gunpowder Earrings Mohammad Hossein Houshmandi – The Paternal House Mohammad Shakiba – Swear Mohammad Taghi Pour – Mahin | Maryam Takhtkeshian – Gholamreza Takhti Fatah Zei Nouri – Rona, Azim's Mother Majid Talebi – Midday Adventures: Trace of Blood Masoud Ashtari – A Hairy Tale Amirhossein Shojaei – Just 6.5 |
| Best Trailer ||
| Amir Mirzai – King Slayer Zeinabollsadat Badri – The Lost Paradise Mohammad Mehdi Mohammadi – Swear Morteza Movahadi – Gholamreza Takhti Masoud Rafizadeh – Dance With Me ||

### Films with multiple wins

| Wins | Films |
| 5 | Drown |
| 5 | Day Zero |
| 3 | Sun Children |
| 2 | Walnut Tree |
| 2 | Exodus |
| 2 | Skin |

### Films with multiple nominations

| Nominations | Films |
| 12 | Drown |
| 11 | Walnut Tree |
| 10 | Sun Children |
| 9 | Day Zero |
| 6 | Skin |
| 5 | Tooman |
| 5 | Atabai |
| 5 | Exodus |
| 4 | 3 Puffs |
| 4 | Shahre Gheseh Cinema |
| 3 | The Rain Falls Where It Will |
| 3 | I'm Scared |
| 2 | Abadan 11 60 |
| 2 | Drowning in Holy Water |
| 2 | There Was Blood |
| 2 | Ballad of a White Cow |
| 2 | Bone Marrow |

## Films
### Main Competition

| Title | Director |
| Abadan 11 60 | Mehrdad Khoshbakht |
| Atabai | Niki Karimi |
| The Night | Kourosh Ahari |
| The Rain Falls Where It Will | Majid Barzegar |
| Filicide | Mohammad Hadi Karimi |
| Skin | Ark Brothers |
| Tooman | Morteza Farshbaf |
| Exodus | Ebrahim Hatamikia |
| The Good, the Bad, the Corny 2: Secret Army | Peyman Ghasemkhani |
| Sun Children | Majid Majidi |
| There Was Blood | Masoud Kimiai |
| Walnut Tree | Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian |
| Amphibious | Borzou Niknejad |
| The Day of the Riot | Behrouz Shoeibi |
| Day Zero | Saeid Malekan |
| 3 Puffs | Saman Salur |
| Shahre Gheseh Cinema | Keyvan Alimohammad, Aliakbar Heydari |
| Drown | Mohammad Kart |
| Popular | Soheil Beyraghi |
| Ballad of a White Cow | Behtash Sanaeeha |
| Drowning in Holy Water | Navid Mahmoudi |
| Bone Marrow | Hamid Ghorbani |
| I'm Scared | Behnam Behzadi |

### First Look

| Title | Director |
| The Night | Kourosh Ahari |
| Soundless | Behrang Dezfoulizadeh |
| Fathers | Salem Salavati |
| Skin | Ark Brothers |
| Enemies | Ali Derakhshandeh |
| Day Zero | Saeid Malekan |
| Conflict | Mohammad Reza Lotfi |
| Drown | Mohammad Kart |
| Slaughterhouse | Abbas Amini |
| The Undercover | Amir Abbas Rabiei |

### Documentary

| Title | Director |
| Lady | Mohammad Habibi Mansour |
| The Marriage Project | Hesam Eslami, Atieh Attarzadeh Firozabad |
| No Place for Angels | Sam Kalantari |
| Lunar Eclipse | Mohsen Ostadali |
| The Narrow Red Line | Farzad Khoshdast |
| It Is Winter | Mehrdad Zahedian |
| Living Among the Flags of War | Mohsen Eslamzadeh |
| Excellency | Sajad Imani |
| The story of Forough girls | Khatereh Hanachi |
| Kill Mehdi Araghi | Abdolreza Nematollahi |

### Short Film

| Title | Director |
| The Rubbish | Ali Azizi |
| Exam | Sonia K. Hadad |
| White Wandering Snows | Mohamadreza Vatandoust |
| Red Panda | Ali Paknia |
| Dabur | Saeed Nejati |
| Dragon's Tail | Saeed Keshavarz |
| The Feast of The Goat | Saeed Zamanian |
| Aziz | Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi Barzaki |
| Alley | Mohammad Reza Mesbah |
| Snowy Mother | Marjan Khosravi |

### Out of competition

| Title | Director |
| Killer Spider | Ebrahim Irajzad |
| Sheen | Meysam Kazazi |