40th Fajr Festival and only one female filmmaker
In the 40th edition of the Fajr Film Festival, Munir Qidi is the only female filmmaker, while if the list of applicants for the festival had been published as last year, it would have been possible to check whether other female directors have also submitted a film to the Fajr Film Festival.
Theater News Base: In previous years, there were periods in the Fajr Film Festival in which the presence of female directors as well as those who produced a film was one of the prominent features of that festival, but this year and in the 40th Fajr Film Festival, we see only one female filmmaker who she He has sent his second directing experience to this cinematic event.
Munir Gheidi participated in the Fajr Film Festival in 2016 with the film “Villas”; A film that told the story of the families of war commanders in 1986. The film won four awards at the Fajr Film Festival, one for Soraya Ghasemi as Best Supporting Actress, and the filmmaker himself received the Talent Award for Best First Film. Of course, Qidi was among those who withdrew from the nomination in protest of the judgments during that marginal period of the festival.
Now, five years later, she has made a film similar to her previous one, focusing on the field of sacred defense and women, called “Girls”.
Munir Gheidi’s second film, produced by his wife Mohammad Reza Mansouri and with the participation of the Farabi Cinema Foundation and Hozeh Honari, is participating in the Fajr Festival. “Girls’ Band” is based on true narratives of Khorramshahr’s 34-day resistance during the holy war, starring Niki Karimi, Panthea Panahi, Fereshteh Hosseini, Hoda Zin al-Abedin and Sadaf Asgari, and is said to be a production film.