The point that exists in this is that in all these years, Fajr Film Festival has been a single-section festival that has shown a lot of resistance against the side sections. This resistance has even withdrawn the international section and relegated it to an independent event. This approach regarding a section like “New Look” which is related to the first films of the filmmakers is also somewhat sari and does not allow that this section, which is itself a product of the contest and competition section, has an independent nature every year.
Let’s approach the global structure of a film festival
According to IRNA, it is natural that when the festival has such an approach regarding certain sections such as international and new look, the task of side sections such as “outside the competition” is quite clear. In all the periods of the festival, only in 9 periods were films with out-of-competition titles shown. Of course, this section has never been included in the official conductor of the festival and has been shown in a case-by-case manner.
While this situation has been established for the Fajr Film Festival, it cannot be considered a normal factor for this event. All the prestigious festivals of the world have an out-of-competition section and they try to raise the prestige of this section with the audience by the presence of prominent names and works. For example, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival George Miller and Kevin Costner They were shown in the out-of-competition section. A similar thing happened in Venice, during which great filmmakers such as Tim Burton and Claude Lelouch They showed their latest work in this section.
It is an obvious occurrence in all periods of the Fajr Film Festival that important films that either have a great director or a team of powerful actors, or that media space has made the name of that work stand out, are left with the opportunity to appear in the only part of the festival. These works create a heavy atmosphere for the festival and instill a negative feeling towards the approach of the festival and its management. In some periods, it has also been observed that the creators of these works have arranged private screenings for the media in order to present some kind of bias as the reason for not selecting their work. In some periods, it has been seen that the Fajr World Festival has accepted this category of works and displayed them.
When you can stop the next edge
Managing the country’s biggest film event can limit the scope of all these margins. The part outside the competition is trying to bring the structure of Fajr festival closer to prestigious international festivals, which naturally does not cost much for the country’s cinema management. Not only is it free of cost, but it also prevents the occurrence of many future edges. For example, films such as “Killer and Wild”, “Roxana”, “Old Boy” and… which were not allowed to participate in the Fajr Festival, to what extent during these years, they created a margin and overshadowed the country’s cinema management.
While it was possible to prevent all these side effects with a limited festival screening for the media. Now let’s take a look at the films that were shown in the festival and then were not allowed to be released to the general public to see that these works did not have any side effects. Take from “Hundred years to these years” which was made in 86 to reach “Sishlik” of these years.
Therefore, it is quite logical that with the design of the “outside the competition” section, the media’s thirst for high-profile works will be quenched and the subsequent side effects will be avoided. When director Chun Hamid Nematullah He officially requests that his film be screened in the smallest theater of Milad Tower, not showing this film is not only a boldness for the position of the author of this popular director, but it will definitely create more margins for the country’s cinema management in the coming months.
The country’s cinema management and of course the Fajr Festival management team for this year showed some good tact: from the justification of the selection committee to the redesign of the festival poster and of course the meetings they held with the directors and producers to welcome this event.
Certainly, one of these strategies can be the design of the “out of competition” section and the screening of important films that could not be screened or participated in the festival for any reason in recent years. This important thing, along with other tacts that were interpreted as an example of “hearing the voice of the people and cinema lovers” in this period, can have a high success in the outer space and definitely bring the process of trust building which has been damaged during the recent periods to a faster pace. .
In fact, the other form of this issue is that the country’s cinema management must enter into this issue and establish a safer and more free environment for the new life of Iranian cinema. Therefore, with all these definitive data, the puzzle of the “out of competition” section is complete, and we hope that in a few hours, the films of this section will be announced along with the competitive section of the festival, so that the 42nd Simorgh, with a wide consensus and high luck, will enter the Qaf cinema. reach Iran