The 11th Persian Film Festival will be held from 24th of April to 11th of May 2025. The program will include an official competition in feature, and short film categories where the Festival Jury will present the Golden Gazelle Award to the best film in each section. The festival will open in Sydney and will tour to Melbourne (1-4 May) and Armidale (9-11 May).

Gala Events

  • Closing Night Ceremony

    Award Ceremony Followed by an Afterparty

  • Opening Night Ceremony

    Refreshments Followed by Screening

Films

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    Tatami

    Zar Amir, Guy Nattiv

    PFFA 2025

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    The Witness

    Nader Saeivar

    PFFA 2025

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    My Favourite Cake

    Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha

    PFFA 2025

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    Endless Borders

    Abbas Amini

    PFFA 2025

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    Googoosh: Made of Fire

    Niloufar Taghizadeh

    PFFA 2025

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    Terrestrial Verses

    Alireza Khatami, Ali Asgari

    PFFA 2025

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    Roxana

    Parviz Shahbazi

    PFFA 2025

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    Cause of Death: Unknown

    Ali Zarnegar

    PFFA 2025

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    The Great Yawn of History

    Aliyar Rasti

    PFFA 2025

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    In the Shadow of the Cypress

    Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani

    PFFA 2025

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    My Father

    Pegah Ahangarani

    PFFA 2025

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    Empty Your Pockets

    Tara Aghdashloo

    PFFA 2025

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    Bonus

    Reza Nejati

    PFFA 2025

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    Alone Together

    Omid Mirzaei

    PFFA 2025

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    Skin of Water

    Somayeh

    PFFA 2025

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    Brother’s Horn

    Majid Asadi

    PFFA 2025

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    Hunchback

    Tahmineh Bahram

    PFFA 2025

Festival Jury

  • Alina Gozin’a

    2025

  • Hunter Page-Lochard

    2025

  • Ezekiel Simat

    2025

  • John Gray

    2025

  • Sonia Whiteman

    2025

Screening & Q&A

In partnership with AFTRS, we are presenting a screen of The Great Yawn of History followed by an online Q&A with the film’s director Aliyar Rasti.

Directors

  • Parviz Shahbazi

    2025

  • Zar Amir

    2025

  • Guy Nattiv

    2025

  • Nader Saeivar

    2025

  • Maryam Moghaddam

    2025

  • Behtash Sanaeeha

    2025

  • Abbas Amini

    2025

  • Ali Asgari

    2025

  • Alireza Khatami

    2025

  • Niloufar Taghizadeh

    2025

  • Aliyar Rasti

    2025

  • Ali Zarnegar

    2025

  • Hossein Molayemi

    2025

  • Shirin Sohani

    2025

  • Tara Aghdashloo

    2025

  • Pegah Ahangarani

    2025

  • Majid Asadi

    2025

  • Somayeh

    2025

  • Tahmineh Bahram

    2025

  • Omid Mirzaei

    2025

  • Reza Nejati

    2025

Venues

  • SYD | Palace Moore Park

    Shop 215, 122 Lang Rd Moore Park NSW 2021

  • MEL | Palace Como

    Level 1, Toorak Rd & Chapel St, South Yarra VIC 3141

  • Armidale | The Playhouse

    309 Beardy St, Armidale NSW 2350

  • AFTRS Theatre

    Building 130, The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park NSW 2021

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