‘The Daughter of Lady Fairy’ wins Moscow screenplay award
Iranian filmmaker Alireza Motamedi won the best screenplay award at the second Open Eurasian Film Awards in Moscow on November 12 for ‘The Daughter of Lady Fairy’.
the film competed with 40 other entries from 18 countries.
The Diamond Butterfly awards were launched on Mikhalkov’s initiative in 2025. They are organized by the Eurasian Academy for Cinematographic Arts, with support from Russia’s Ministry of Culture and the Russian Culture Foundation.
The event brings together films from different countries that focus on cultural and human values.
Keyvan Moghaddam, the film’s production designer, was also nominated for best production design at the Moscow awards. The prize went to the team behind the Russian film ‘August’.
Motamedi wrote and directed the film, which marks Motamedi’s third feature after ‘Reza’ and ‘Why Don’t You Cry?’ and continues the introspective storytelling of his earlier works.
As in his previous films, Motamedi directs and takes on the lead role. Soha Niasti, Marziyeh Boroumand and Sahra Asadollahi are the cast.
The film follows a young woman working as a sound designer on a film dubbing project who returns after years away to confront her former lover.
Her unexpected arrival stirs up old memories, forcing him to face unresolved emotions and painful truths about the past.
Adding an international prize to the film’s festival run in 2026, ‘The Daughter of Lady Fairy’ had previously competed in the international competition section of the 42nd Warsaw International Film Festival in Poland in October 2026.