Winners of the 2nd Sobh International Media Event Award

Prizes for the winners of the Sobh International Festival were awarded by the jury to selected works in the main section with the theme “Media and the New World Order.” The selection was based on the value of local and regional identities, spiritualism and cultural authority, family heritage, the discourse of resistance and opposition against oppressive powers, as well as in the IRIB World Service section and the Palestine Special Section.

Main Section:

Best Vlog Award: “Richard Medhurst”

Best Short Animation: “Seyed Mohsen Pourmohseni Shakib” for Pootin

Best Television-Documentary Award “Alireza Dehghan” for Isatis 

Best Motion Graphic: “Alalam”

Best Radio Drama: “Javad Pishgar”

Best Radio Program: “Hanieh Pirami”

Best Radio Documentary: “Farshid Zaboori”

Best Radio Report: “Giti Mohammadi”

Best TV Program: “Aalamcom”

IRIB World Service Section:

Best Radio Magazine: “Abdolhadi Forooghian”

Best Radio News Report: “Gholam Abbas Heidari”

Best Music Video: “Zoha Shahriari” for “If I Must Die”

Best Magazine Show: “Expose”

Best Talk Show: “Dardasha”

Best Radio Announce and Radio Spot: “Mohaddese Ahmadi”

Television Documentary: “Radwan Mortada” for “Iran and Iraq”

Best News Coverage: “Press TV”  

Best News Report: “Marcelo Ali Sanchez”

Best Radio Program: “Atefe Erfani”

Best Podcast: “Fatemeh Baqeri”

Best Radio Magazine: “Sanaz Ehsani”

Best Website: Press TV

Social Media: “Press TV’s X Page”

Palestine Secial Section:

Best Music Video: “Ali Ahmad Diab” for “How Enthralling Are the Martyrs”

Best Short Film: “Saeed Moltaji” for “Message”

Best News Coverage: “Felestin Alyum TV Channel” for “Ebadeh”

Best Cartoon Illustration: “Carlos Latuff”

Best TV Program: “Palestine Declassified”

Festival Special Award “Stop Zionist Hate” for Innovation in Support of Palestine and Confronting the Zionist Hate 

Citizen Journalist: “Ahmed Abu El-Rous”

Best Motion Graphic: “Press TV”

Best TV News Report: “Ali Shoeib”

Best Podcast: “Fatemeh Roshan” and “Abbas Muntaqim” 

Best Short Animation “Mohammad Lotfali” for “Sound of Clouds”

Best Graphic Illustration: “Ahmad Vejdan Nezhaad”

Best Illustration: “Michael Barati”

Best Feature Story: “Ali Bou Jbara”

Best Documentary: “Ehsan Shadmani”

Sobh Special Awards for Independent Media Activists.