The age classification of cinematic works was taken out of the authority of the cinema organization

Theater News Base: Following a complaint from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and the Organization of Cinema and Audiovisual Affairs regarding the request to annul the entire method (regulation) of age classification of cinematic works approved by the Head of the Organization of Cinema and Audiovisual Affairs, Board The General Court of Administrative Justice, after discussing the classification of cinematic works in accordance with Article 138 of the Constitution, considered it necessary, but considered the approval of the relevant criteria out of the affairs of the Cinema Organization. It annulled the relevant regulation.

The General Assembly of the Court of Administrative Justice also declared it necessary to observe paragraphs 13 and 11 of Article 3 of the Regulations on Supervision of Film, Slide and Video Screening and the issuance of a screening license approved by the Council of Ministers. It does not contain scenes of murder, torture, crime, abnormal images and sounds, it does not necessarily mean prescribing watching movies for all age groups, and the principle of classifying cinematic works is essential. Therefore, the approval of the classification criteria by the Deputy Minister and the Head of the Cinema Organization is beyond the authority of the authorities.