MNA � Iranian drama �No Date, No Signature� has won Best Director Award for Vahid Jalilvand and Best Actor Award for Mohammad Navidzadeh at the Venice Horizons sections of the 74th Venice Film Festival.


�No Date, No Signature� which won Best Director and Best Supporting Actor awards at the 35th Fajr Film Festival, managed to once again draw the attentions of festival juries to the top-notch performance of Navid Mohammadzadeh and Vahid Jalilvand�s outstanding achievement as the director of the film.

The drama narrates the story of a forensic pathologist Dr. Kaveh Nariman (played by Amir Aghaei), a principled and virtuous man, who has an accident with a motorcyclist (Mohammadzadeh) and his family, and injures his 8-year-old son. He pays compensation to the man and offers to take the child to a clinic nearby. The next morning, he finds out that the same little boy has been brought in for an autopsy. Dr. Nariman faces a dilemma now: is he responsible for the child�s death due to the accident or he died of food poisoning according to other doctors� diagnostic?

Variety has reviewed �No Date, No Signature� as �a handsomely made, exceptionally well-played drama that largely works despite a few significant plot holes.�

The review praises Navid Mohammadzadeh�s performance, saying �all four main actors are in top form, but it�s Mohammadzadeh who steals the show in his scene at the poultry plant, when his desperate monologue takes on an epic, Shakespearean quality as he throws all his physical force into a verbal storm of pained outrage.�



While dedicating his award to the Iranian people during the closing�ceremony Saturday night, Mohammadzadeh said �I am proud to be an Iranian, and I am delighted that Rakhshan Bani Etemad as one of the best filmmakers in Iran�s cinema history is among the jury panels of this year�s edition of Venice film festival.�

The festival�s top prize known as Golden Lion went to Guillermo Del Toro�s �The Shape of Water�.

The 74th Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 9 September 2017 in Venice, Italy.