Trust cinema Hasan Lotfi wrote in Etemad newspaper: The old teacher turned to the teachers who were sitting in his class to learn and said: Tell me about the best teacher in your life, do you remember his name? Everyone took the name of a teacher who was sitting in their class at school or university. A few people proudly said that they were famous professors.
Someone hesitantly raised his hand and said: The best teacher of my life was Ms. Safora. An illiterate old woman who was the wife of the old gardener of our village. He told me stories and gave meaning to life. When he finished speaking, the others looked at him and smiled in such a way that he thought he had made a mistake, but the class teacher paused and then clapped his hands vigorously.
He clapped so that others smiled and started clapping. In the rest of the class, he spoke more about the choice of that coach than about the famous names that were mentioned. For him, the illiterate old woman was a representative of teachers who did not go to school, she became a problem-learner for a hundred teachers. There is a simple reason for stating this true event when the news of Taq and Jafet master classes are held in different cities of the country. The best teacher, trainer and lecturer is not necessarily a famous person who you have to pay a lot of money to participate in the class they give him. I do not intend to deny the necessity of holding such classes and masterclasses. It is very good that Nouri Bilge Jilan comes to Iran and talks about cinema in a master class. Using Iraj Tahmasab, Soroush Sahet, Hoshang Moradi Kermani, Ehsan Abdipour, etc., to hold master classes that have a large audience despite the relatively large amount of money is very good. That… but at the same time, there are private schools in different parts of this country, which do not have such an audience because there are no famous names with them.
That too in a situation where many of their teachers remain like that old woman who was full of knowledge and enthusiasm. I don’t want to say that the reason for the slowness of work and the lack of audience in those schools is the holding of training courses with the help of celebrities, etc. no it is not Part of this problem is in the kind of view that is institutionalized in society. Let me give an example. Kianoush Ayari is a very good filmmaker. Without compliments, there is nothing short of Nouri Bilgeh Jilan. But in the same way that the glory of cinema program (I didn’t understand if glory means greatness or glory means complaint) was held with the presence of 150 audience who had paid money to participate in the master class and a large number of famous actors and important actors of the cinema, etc. Kianoush Ayari (owner of the best films of Iranian cinema), Shahram Makri (creative filmmaker and award-winner of prestigious festivals), Majid Barzegar (reputable filmmaker and producer) and Shadmehr Rastin (screenwriter and professional critic) were present in a meeting. Attendance at the meeting was free.
Like Nouri Bilge Jilan, Kianoush Ayari talked about his cinema, but… Yes, the presence of Nouri Bilge Jilan was special! Accept! But what about the master classes of other faces? I think the problem is more important than these words. One can talk about it for hours and write several volumes of books about it. Whatever it is, those whose business is education and earn money from it are more successful than those whose love is cinema and education. If it were not for this, a different cinema lover like Bilge Jilan would have appeared in the same place where Kianoosh Ayari was present and instead of meeting with…