# The Lion Skin

The Lion Skin (Persian: پوست شیر, romanized: Poost-e Shir) is an Iranian television series created by Jamshid and Navid Mahmoudi brothers for Filmnet. It stars Hadi Hejazifar as the lead character, with Alireza Kamali, Shahab Hosseini, Pantea Bahram, Zhila Shahi, Mehrdad Sedighian, Pardis Ahmadieh and Behzad Khalaj.

## Plot

After years in prison, Naeem (Hadi Hejazifar) is released and goes after his only passion, his daughter Sahel (Pardis Ahmadieh). His daughter avoids her father because of his absence during these years. After being convinced by Naeem's friend (Alireza Kamali), despite the opposition of her mother (Pantea Bahram) and her mother's husband (Babak Karimi), who does not know that her father is alive, Sahel goes on a trip with her father Naeem. Sahel, who feels close again during the trip with her father, tells him that she plans to emigrate and will soon emigrate for university. Naeem gets angry and they immediately get in the car to go back to Tehran so that he can talk to Sahel's mother and say that he will not allow his daughter to be separated from him again. On the way back, Naeem feels dizzy and bad and gets out of the car and faints on the ground. When he wakes up on the floor the next morning, there is no sign of his daughter.

## Cast

* Hadi Hejazifar as Naeem Molaee
* Alireza Kamali as Reza Abdollahi (Parvaneh)
* Shahab Hosseini as Moheb Meshkat
* Pantea Bahram as Leila Barzegar
* Zhila Shahi as Mozhgan
* Mehrdad Sedighian as Sadra Kouhestani
* Pardis Ahmadieh as Sahel Molaee
* Behzad Khalaj as Rasoul Fouladvand
* Babak Karimi as Behzad Sahraee
* Saeed Dashti as Saeed Yarahmadi
* Mojtaba Pirzadeh as Masoud Bajelan
* Kamran Tafti as Nariman Gholami
* Anahita Afshar as Shirin Beigzadeh
* Mohammad Reza Maleki as Samad Behlouli
* Roya Javidnia as Sadra's mother
* Morteza Khanjani as Behnam Azizi
* Ali Osivand as Jelveh
* Alireza Ostadi as Behrouz
* Ehsan Amani as Manouchehr Mardani
* Farid Sajjadi Hosseini as Retired major
* Bahram Ebrahimi as Bahman
* Ramin Rastad as Majid Nouri
* Mohammad Reza Sarvestani as Mavaddat
* Afsaneh Tehranchi as Vajihe
* Dorsa Shirazi as Tina
* Keyvan Saketof as Shahin
* Jamshid Hosseini as Khalil Soufiani
* Peyman Moghaddami as Morteza
* Meysam Mojaveri as Hamid
* Poulad Mokhtari as Esmail

## Awards and nominations

Name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee of the award, and the result of the nomination :
| Award | Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Hadi Hejazifar | Nominated |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Alireza Kamali | Won |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Shahab Hosseini | Nominated |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Actor – Television Series Drama | Mojtaba Pirzadeh | Nominated |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Pantea Bahram | Nominated |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Zhila Shahi | Nominated |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | Pardis Ahmadieh | Nominated |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Director – Television Series | Jamshid Mahmoudi | Won |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Screenplay – Television Series | Jamshid Mahmoudi, Reza Baharvand | Won |
| Hafez Awards | 2023 | Best Television Series | Navid Mahmoudi | Won |