Fajr International Film Festival will be held in June next year.
According to Saba, The Fajr International Film Festival, which existed independently from the national section of the Fajr Film Festival since 2014, has had many ups and downs during its years of establishment, and it seems that after numerous changes in time, place, integration and separation, it is going to return to its original position.
This event has always had supporters and opponents, and some cinematographers believe that it should still be held together with the national section in the same month of February. On the other hand, some people believe that the experience of the first separate holding of the international section of the Fajr Festival in the spring of the 90s, which was accompanied by the presence of famous figures of world cinema such as Oliver Stone and Paul Schrader, shows that the independence of the international festival is more suitable. But the main issue here is that this cinematic event, like many other cases, was influenced by tasteful and sometimes political decisions in different management periods.
As a result of the management changes in different governments of this festival, in November 1400, it was announced that the national and international Fajr film festivals will be held as a unit after five separate periods since 1401; That is exactly one year after Fajr World Film Festival was registered as one of the world’s first festivals in the International Confederation of Film Producers (FIAPF) and this festival entered a world club!
However, the integration of the national and international part of the festival in the special social conditions after the events of 1401, not only did not reduce the criticism, but also raised other issues about the nature of the international part.
The failure of the 13th government after the helicopter crash and the coming of the new government also changed the management of the cinema and the international section of the Fajr festival again underwent new adventures. This time, in addition to separating the national and international sections again, the time and place of the festival was also moved so that the margins of this international festival would continue.
This is while changing the time and place of a festival registered in the FIAPF list, except that it must be done with the permits of this international organization, questions the image of an event that had gained credit for itself; Especially since other festivals such as the “Red Sea” of Saudi Arabia are trying to establish themselves as a prestigious film event in the region with a lot of financial splashes and invitations to Hollywood stars.
Despite all this, the Fajr World Festival, which was postponed to December instead of May and June last year, and even moved from Tehran to Shiraz, will not be held this year due to the effects of the war and the special conditions of the country, and according to ISNA reporter’s follow-up, it is supposed to be held in the first half of June next year in Tehran, apparently on the same initial date (after the Cannes Film Festival).
It seems that this event has special conditions due to the successive changes of recent years, and the way of holding the next session has a dignified aspect to maintain its rank and prestige, for this reason, the change of the city of this festival, which was named Tehran from the beginning, will also be ruled out.
