27th Fajr International Film Festival

27th Fajr International Film Festival
Official poster
Opening filmEvery Night, Loneliness
LocationTehran, Iran
Founded1983
AwardsCrystal Simorgh
Golden Simorgh
Editor-in-chiefMajid Shah-Hosseini [fa][1]
No. of films277[1]
  • 128 (Iranian films)
  • 149 (foreign films)
Festival date31 January–10 February 2009[1]
LanguagePersian, English
Fajr International Film Festival

The 27th Fajr International Film Festival (Persian: بیست و هفتمین جشنواره بین‌المللی فیلم فجر) held from 31 January to 10 February 2009 in Tehran, Iran.

Doubt (Varuzh Karim-Masihi, 2009) — which adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet[2] was the festival's best film in "Competition of Iranian Cinema" and Snow (Aida Begić, 2008), a Bosnian film, was the festival's best film in "Competition of International Cinema".

  1. ^ a b c Anari, Elham (19 January 2009). نشست خبری جشنواره فیلم فجر [Fajr Film Festival press conference] (in Persian). Hamshahri Online.
  2. ^ Burnett 2019, p. 212.