Iranian filmmaker Ramin Hosseinpour, author, director, and producer of the quick movie Soratgar (The Portrait Maker), gained the Greatest Director and Greatest Quick Screenplay awards on the New York Worldwide Movie Awards in December 2024 and January 2025.
This famend pageant, in its sixth version, selects movies via preliminary, semifinal, and last levels. Chosen movies are screened month-to-month at The Producers Membership in Manhattan, New York, with public screenings set for January 20, 2025.
Soratgar is a brief documentary based mostly on the lives of Molavi or Rumi, the nice Iranian poet, and his religious teacher Shams Tabrizi in 642 AH. It’s at the moment in rivalry for the Academy Awards, BAFTA, and different prestigious honors in 2026, and ranks amongst IMDb’s High 50 Quick Movies and Documentaries of 2025.
Beforehand, Soratgar secured third place on the Rhode Island Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2022, within the US, and earned nominations on the 78th FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO, in Italy, and the Crown Level Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2024 in Chicago, the US.
Key collaborators on Soratgar embody cinematographer Ali Ehsani, editor Ehsan Vaseghi, and creative director Mohammad Nazari.