“Bodyguard” wins Golden Palme at BIFF

Baghdad (AIPFF) – "Bodyguard", written and directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker Ebrahim Hatamikia, won the Golden Palme of the 8th Baghdad International Film Festival in feature fiction section.

Baghdad (AIPFF) – “Bodyguard”, written and directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker Ebrahim Hatamikia, won the Golden Palme of the 8th Baghdad International Film Festival in feature fiction section.
This film was first shown in the 34th Fajr Film Festival.
The film “Bodyguard” tells the story of an old war hero assigned with the task of protecting one of the country’s most important assets: a young genius working at Iran’s atomic energy agency for producing peaceful nuclear energy. Faced with an imminent threat of assassination, things only get worse as the young genius refuses to allow his bodyguard to protect him.
The director, Hatamikia, was born in 1961 in Tehran to Iranian Azerbaijani parents. He dropped out of the Art University where he studied script writing. He began his directing career with the film The Identity in 1986 and some short films and documentaries about the Iran–Iraq War. His movies are considered to be the best that tackle the war and the issues surrounding it. His works have often received admiration in national film festivals.
“The Glass Agency” and “In the Name of the Father” have won him the best screenplay and directing awards in the sixteenth and twenty-fourth Fajr International Film Festival respectively.