Squad of Girls (Persian: دسته دختران, romanized: Dasteye Dokhtarân) is a 2022 Iranian war drama film directed by Monir Gheidi and written by Gheidi, Milad Akbarnejad and Ebrahim Amini. it revolves around the Battle of Khorramshahr of 1980. The film screened for the first time at the 40th Fajr Film Festival where it won an award, an honorary diploma and earned 5 nominations.
Premise the movie shows the resistance and self-sacrifice of women in the early days of the war, and by reconstructing live and documentary images of the house-to-house battle in Khorramshahr, has created the first cinematic image of that resistance from a female perspective.
Cast
Niki Karimi as Yeganeh Kamayi Pantea Panahiha as Vajihe Fereshteh Hosseini as Simin Hoda Zeinolabedin as Fereshteh Sadaf Asgari as Azar Hossein Soleimani as Soldier Mehdi Hosseininia as Vajihe's Husband Yasin Masoudi Mohammad Sadigi Mehr
Reception Critical response
Accolades YearAwardCategoryRecipientResult2022Fajr Film FestivalBest Supporting ActressFereshteh HosseiniBest Visual EffectsHassan Najafi and Amir ValikhaniBest Special EffectsMohsen Roozbahani and Kavoos RoozbahaniBest Production DesignMohammad Reza ShojaiBest Sound EffectsFaramarz AbolsedghBest Sound RecordingMehdi EbrahimzadehBest EditorHamid Najafirad2022Urban International Film FestivalBest ActressPantea PanahihaBest Special and Visual EffectsHassan Najafi, Amir Valikhani, Mohsen Roozbahani and Kavoos Roozbahani
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