Iran has nominated Reza Mirkarimi’s film “Nahkehban Shab” (“The Night Watchman”) for the 2024 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category.
The film, which was released last year, deals with the difficult and arduous life of Rasoul, a rural worker trying to earn a living in the capital, Tehran.
The Farabi Film Foundation announced on Tuesday that the nomination committee “selected ‘Nekheban Shab’ (‘The Night Watchman’) directed by Reza Mirkarimi to represent Iranian cinema at the 2024 Academy Awards.”
“The Night Watchman” will be among the films seeking to qualify for the semi-finals in the Best Foreign Film category from among dozens of nominations from various countries around the world. The Academy will then reserve five works for the final nominations list, among which the winner of the award will be.
Mirkarimi (56 years old) won the Best Film Award at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran in 2005 for “So Far, So Soon,” while his film “Today” was nominated for the Oscars in 2005.
Almost every year since 1994, the Farabi Foundation selects the Iranian film that participates in the Oscar race.
Last year, Iran nominated the film “The Third World War” by director Houman Sidi to represent it in the Oscar race.
The famous Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film twice, the first for “Separation” in 2011 and the second for “The Salesman” in 2017.
