Negar Hassanzadeh

Iranian actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter.

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Black and white portrait of Negar Hassanzadeh resting her chin on her hand

Lunge · a film by Negar Hassanzadeh

  • WinnerSportfilm Festival Liberec2024
  • Best Short FilmMatera Sport Film Festival2024
  • Best DramaWoman, Life, Freedom Film Festival2025
  • Shorts CompetitionRed Sea International Film Festival2024
  • Official SelectionNewport Beach Film Festival2024
Directed

Films

Poster for Lunge: a fencing mask over a woman's eyes, with the title in thin white capitals
Short film · 15 min · Iran / USA · 2024 · Persian

Lunge

Writer & Director · Actress

At the Olympic qualifiers, fencer Parisa runs into an obstacle that could end her run. She refuses to give up and does everything she can to get past it.

  • Winner, Feature Films & TV SeriesSportfilm Festival Liberec, Czech Republic, 2024
  • Best Short FilmMatera Sport Film Festival, Italy, 2024
  • Best DramaWoman, Life, Freedom Film Festival, 2025
  • Jury PrizeTrame Indipendenti, Italy, 2025
  • Shorts CompetitionRed Sea International Film Festival, 2024
  • Official Selection, Certificate of RecognitionNewport Beach Film Festival, 2024
Cast
Negar Hassanzadeh, Amin Miri, Sonia Motamedi, Yalda Fadaee Hosseini, Maryam Tamjidi, Fatemeh Khanbeigi
Producer
Ali Asadollahi
Photography
Ebrahim Jafari
Editing
Iman Bayatfar
Music
Rouzbeh Malek
Sound design
Behzad Mehdizadeh
Set & costume
Sahar Sohrabi
Still from Lunge: the coach leans in to speak to the fencer in the locker room
Still from Lunge: the fencer ties her white hood in front of a mirror
Still from Lunge: a fencer in a white hood flanked by two officials in a corridor
Still from Lunge: a fencer with her mask pushed up, smiling, lit by blue and orange light
Still from Lunge: a fencer lifting her mask, with the 2025 IFEMA laurel
Still from Lunge: a fencer beside her reflection in a mirror, with the Newport Beach Film Fest official selection laurel
Still from Lunge: the coach seated in the locker room, with the Matera Sport Film Festival 2024 award winner laurel

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Poster for Cattish: a man jabs his finger at a woman slumped on a sofa beside a cat cushion
Short film · 2021

Cattish تزیینات گربه‌ای

Writer & Director

No one knows when the table turns.

  • Official SelectionTerrassa, City of Film, Spain, 2021
Cast
Houra Kian, Kooshan Hemmati, Navid Nosrati
Producer
Ali Asadollahi
Watch Cattish
Recognition

Awards & festivals

Lunge · 5 awards · 17 international festivals

Awards

  • Winner, Feature Films & TV SeriesSportfilm Festival LiberecCzech Republic · around 400 films from 70 countries · part of the World FICTS Challenge2024
  • Best Short FilmMatera Sport Film Festival14th edition · Italy2024
  • Best DramaWoman, Life, Freedom Film Festival2025
  • Jury PrizeTrame Indipendenti9th edition · Pisa, Italy2025
  • Honorable MentionNordic International Film Festival11th edition2025

Selected festivals

Sportfilm Festival Liberec 2024 finals: Lunge, directed by Negar Hassanzadeh and produced by Ali Asdolahi, wins the Feature Films and TV Series category
Winner graphic from the 11th Nordic International Film Festival: Lunge, Honorable Mention
Certificate from the Woman, Life, Freedom Film Festival: Best Drama award for Lunge, 2025

Lunge premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival in California.

The City of Newport Beach issued a Certificate of Recognition for Lunge as an official selection of the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival.

Filmmaker holding the City of Newport Beach Certificate of Recognition for Lunge, in front of the Newport Beach Film Fest backdrop
On screen

Acting

More than fifteen years in Iranian film, television and theatre, from feature films and series to her own short films.

Negar Hassanzadeh as Parisa in Lunge, tying her white fencing hood in front of a mirror
As Parisa in Lunge, 2024
Poster for Crimson, a film by Rayan Farzad: Negar Hassanzadeh, with dark red hair, looks up through cigarette smoke Alternate poster for Crimson: Hamid Khorasanizadeh upside down at the top, Negar Hassanzadeh looking up with a cigarette at the bottom
On the set of Crimson: a crew member holds the clapperboard in front of Negar Hassanzadeh before a take
Crimson, dir. Rayan Farzad · Anthem Film Festival 2026 · Austin Film Festival 2026 · @crimsonthefilm

Film

Television

  • 2014Look Behind Sometimesگاهی به پشت سر نگاه کنSeries
  • Morning Timeوقت صبحSeries · dir. Javad Aghazadeh

Short film

  • 2025CrimsonNeda · dir. Rayan Farzad · Anthem Film Festival, Austin Film Festival 2026
  • 2024LungeلانژParisa · lead
  • 2018Let Tonight Passdir. Hamed Ghasemi
  • 2010Raw, Cooked, Burnedخام، پخته، سوختهdir. Shahram Mokri
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In the news

Press

Articles are in Persian

Contact

Portrait of Negar Hassanzadeh in a beige jacket and black top, in soft evening light