Thirteen years in the past, the Fajr Film Festival, which celebrates the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, started to incorporate worldwide movies along with home movies, resulting in the creation of a world movie competition part, Shargh newspaper reported.
After seven years of growth and fine-tuning, in 2021, the International Fajr Film Festival was acknowledged as a Class A world competition by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF), becoming a member of the ranks of the world’s prime 15 aggressive movie festivals .
The movie competition is presently strategically positioned between the Cannes Film Festival and the Beijing International Film Festival and is scheduled to be held in May.
He emphasised the significance of being dedicated to the competition’s international identification to realize credibility on the worldwide stage.
Mr. Alamolhoda emphasised that international coverage and worldwide actions play an vital position in reaching a globally influential movie competition, including that international locations that lack public screening of international movies have a powerful worldwide popularity. He emphasised that it isn’t attainable to host a movie competition with such excessive costs.
Shargh mentioned the presence of high-profile worldwide visitors, comparable to Hollywood director Oliver Stone in 2018 and movie director Paul Schrader in 2019, has elevated the status of the competition and strengthened the connection between Iranian filmmakers and regional distributors. He added that it inspired connections.
This success is a credit score to Festival Secretary-General Reza Mirkarimi and stands in distinction to the times when the nationwide and worldwide sections had been mixed and attracted much less well-known visitors.