What do you want to do to the cinema?

Charso Press: Less than 100 days before the start of the Fajr Film Festival, which is considered to be the year of Iranian cinema, there is no news of new films being released, nor have the films on the screen met with Iqbali. The owners of films ready to be shown, looking at the box office situation, prefer to wait. In fact, there is no other option than the policy of patience and waiting. The significant decrease in cinema audiences has made no one show any desire to release their films. In the case of private sector films, it is natural that the owner of capital is not willing to participate in a field where failure seems certain, but Iranian cinema also has a fat government sector. Right now there are a significant number of films belonging to state-sovereign institutions that are ready to be screened. It seems that the government institutions do not have much desire to show their films

2- The process of issuing a construction permit by the Ministry of Guidance continues as usual. If we check the construction permits issued since the beginning of the year, we will find that a number of projects have not yet reached the production stage, and experience says that some of these will never be built. Getting a production license does not always mean that the film will be made. A film whose investor withdraws and a producer who came forward hoping to attract capital from this organization and that company and such investor, when his predictions do not come true, he has no choice but to give up the production; Therefore, the construction permit is like a check that is not necessarily cashed.

3- Let’s be optimistic and assume that the production licenses issued will all lead to movie productions. When exactly are these movies going to be released? When in the long queue of public screening, there are still films that are produced in 1998 and 1999; What are the prospects for a film that is produced in the fall or winter of 1401? A more accurate question could be that with this state of release, what are the hopes of these films being made? The answer to this question should be found in the change of production relations in the last decade. Iranian cinema, both in the private sector and in the public sector, has found a way to survive that does not require public screening. The fact that a director or producer with several unreleased or failed films is producing his new film is a clear sign that there is no need for general release and box office.
The removal of the audience starts right here; From the point where the satisfaction of the audience and the booming box office are no longer important and only finding an investor, which does not matter if it is Farabi or a carpet trader, an importer of medical equipment, etc., the mission ends at the moment of attracting capital and there is no need to attract an audience. The sad story of Iranian cinema and its lost audience begins here.

4- The fact that cinematographers have found a way to produce without public screening has made the cinematographic activity not shut down. The audience does not lose anything by removing the option of watching the movie in the cinema hall; Because competing media are present in the field. That steady and loyal population of Iranian cinema is constantly shrinking and shrinking.
What remains is the multitude of cinema campuses, many of which have been built in the last decade. What to do with these empty halls? As the guardian of Iranian cinema, what is the plan of the Cinema Organization for empty campuses? What should be done with movie theaters when Iranian cinema is closed to the public? While there are less than 100 days left until the end of the 1401 cinematographic year and in one of the cold and slow years, the box office and films are left behind, and the films are often failed and the producers are reluctant to attract the attention of the audience who is willing to buy cinema tickets, what will be lost over time. is Iranian cinema.
According to what was mentioned in the above lines, filmmaking in Iran continues, but without an audience and with the lack of need and disregard for public screening, Iranian cinema cannot continue its normal life.