What should the 40th anniversary of Fajr Film Festival look like?

Fars News Agency – Cinema Group: Forty years is the age of strictness of transcendence, the age of transcendence and maturity of intellect, the age that is different before and after; As it is mentioned in verse 15 of Surah Al-Ahqaf, or we read in a hadith of Imam Baqir (AS) that when a person reaches the age of 40, he is told to be very careful; Because you will not be excused after this!

The same can be expected from phenomena such as the Fajr Film Festival, which is reaching its 40th anniversary. For the past 40 years, this Fajr Film Festival has introduced the talents of Iranian cinema and this issue has not been limited to domestic borders. The most important international figures of Iranian cinema such as Abbas Kiarostami, Majid Majidi, Asghar Farhadi and Narges Abyar also through this forum. Have been introduced and have reached domestic and foreign fame and popularity. From this perspective, the Fajr Film Festival is an important and influential event, even in the international arena.

Attendance at the Fajr Film Festival can provide a source of visibility and fame, so a similar event is repeated in each period, the entrants to the festival gain prestige in that form, and in the shadow of it, they gain fame and popularity. But they may attack the judges and the festival at the closing ceremony and while they are not satisfied with the judges’ choices, on the age and in the conditions in which they hold the Crystal Simorgh!

* Heresy that has become common!

Protesting against the festival in the last decade has been an innovation that has created a lot of margins for this national event. Questioning and criticizing it is strange and possibly unique.

Most of the protesters have tried to make headlines by spying and propaganda activities until a few days after the end of the festival. People who play this game seem to know that the context of success or failure in the festival can be used for film screenings and branding for the filmmaker and the production team. However, protesting against the non-selection of a film or not seeing it in the awarding of Simorghs should not negate the importance of the Fajr Film Festival. But sometimes producers and directors, from this missed opportunity, create a new opportunity to increase their reputation and credibility.

Fajr Film Festival has different and variable functions for two spectrums. Cinematographers, each of whom has alternately appeared on the closing stage in selection and judging boards at different times with their colleagues, may be protesting and criticizing the festival, ignoring its importance to Iranian cinema and its cinematographers. Ash sometimes becomes so salty that they even forget that they themselves were proud of receiving the Crystal Simorgh of the Fajr Film Festival and were overwhelmed with joy and happiness.

These days, thanks to cyberspace, one can watch or observe many opening and closing ceremonies of film and cultural festivals and events and compare them with similar domestic examples and see if they also question the jury and the final selections.

* Fajr with all its shortcomings is a national event

The Fajr Film Festival has gone through ups and downs in its 40-year history. This festival with all its disadvantages and shortcomings is a national event and its closure can not be an achievement for Iranian cinema and its filmmakers. Holding this festival is a cultural necessity, a festival that showcases Iranian cinema as one of the honors of Asian cinema and many international filmmakers. has it.

Iranian cinema entered the period of maturity and prosperity after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, and the Fajr Film Festival is the point of its crystallization. Even if in the 40th period and with the change of screening conditions, a group believes that the most important films of Iranian cinema can not necessarily be seen in the festival, nevertheless, Fajr Film Festival is still the most important, popular and influential film event every year and a prelude to Nowruz The title is the most important screening time of a film in our country.

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