Directing In 2006, Jalali was nominated for the
BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his short "Heydar, an Afghan in Tehran."
Frontier Blues premiered in
Locarno Festival Competition and also screened in the 2010 "New Directors" series at the
Museum of Modern Art and
Lincoln Center. In 2016, Jalali's film
Radio Dreams premiered at the 45th
International Film Festival Rotterdam, winning for the Hivos Tiger Award, the festival's top honor. Jalali's third feature
Land is an Italian-French-Dutch co-production, supported by CNC, TorinoFilmLab, Eurimages, Mibac and Doha Film Institute among others. It premiered in
Berlin International Film Festival. Jalali co-wrote, edited, and directed his fourth feature
Fremont, which premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in January 2023. For
Fremont, Jalali was nominated as a director for Best International Feature Film at the
British Independent Film Awards in 2024, and he won the
John Cassavetes Awards at the
Independent Spirit Awards 2024.
Producing Jalali has also produced films, including Italian director
Duccio Chiarini’s
Short Skin, which won support from the Venice Biennale College and premiered at the
Venice Film Festival in 2014; Israel-born, Berlin-based director
Noaz Deshe's feature
White Shadow; and Iranian director Ali Jaberansari's feature
The Ladder, for which Jalali, Jaberansari and Chiarini (also producing) won production support at the
Sofia International Film Festival. ==References==