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Founded in 1982, Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF) is Iran’s largest annual film festival held in Tehran. It is an event that celebrates cultural exchange, displays creative achievements of highly acclaimed cineastes and pays tribute to quality local and international films. Since its establishment, Fajr International Film Festival has played a vital role in the development of the Iranian Cinema. Every year, veteran directors and new filmmakers devotedly present their works in the festival.
Over the years, Fajr has been honored by numerous great film figures who have also worked closely with the festival as respectable Jury Members, such as Volker Schlondorff, Krzysztof Zanussi, Robert Chartoff, Semih Kaplanoglu, Bruce Beresford, Percy Adlon, Paul Cox, Shyam Benegal, Bela Tarr, Jan Troell, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Elia Suleiman, Agnieszka Holland, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Rustam Ibragimbekov, just to name a few among other influential figures.
The 2021 FIFF winners have been announced. This is the place to be to see who won big at the 38th Fajr International Film Festival.
The curtain fell on this year’s hybrid edition, presided over by Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour, on Wednesday, 2 June. Charsou Cineplex hosted the virtual closing ceremony at 11:30 am Tehran local time. The most anticipated moments of the awards ceremony included a statement by Director Asgarpour.
Addressing the ceremony, F...
The 2021 FIFF winners have been announced. This is the place to be to see who won big at the 38th Fajr International Film Festival.
The curtain fell on this year’s hybrid edition, presided over by Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour, on Wednesday, 2 June. Charsou Cineplex hosted the virtual closing ceremony at 11:30 am Tehran local time. The most anticipated moments of the awards ceremony included a statement by Director Asgarpour.
Addressing the ceremony, Festival Director...
Amid ongoing coronavirus concerns worldwide, Iran’s Fajr International Film Festival is the latest event to reschedule its dates to next year.
The annual festival has been deferred in consideration of the safety and health of all the guests, participants and the public, as well as to coordinate with the overall epidemic prevention work in the country.
According to the press headquarters of the annual cinematic event, Festival Director Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour said on Thursd...
Closing ceremony of the 36th edition of Fajr international film festival was held in presence of Iran minister of culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi, head of cinema organization Mohammad Mehdi Heidarian, festival director Reza Mir Karimi, and prominent Iranian and international cinema individuals including Oliver Stone, Reza Kianian, Oliver Montagon, and many well-known personalities.
Reza Mirkarimi director of the festival delivered a short speech and said nothing could be don...
American movie director Oliver Stone arrived in Tehran Monday morning aiming to attend the 36th edition Fajr international film festival runs April 19-27 in Tehran, Iran.
Stone hosted a workshop for filmmakers at Tehran University for the students craving to learn more and benefit from the knowledge and experiences of the prominent individuals.
American inspirational filmmaker paid a visits to the festival venue and in his live interview with Nader Talebzadeh on Iran-based TV c...
All credited festivals and those aiming to gain fame worldwide seek receiving the attention of media and public audience across the world which partly could be achieved through the participation of international well-known figures, and Fajr International film festival has never been an exception. This year like the previous editions, prominent artists have been invited to attend the 36th edition of Fajr international film festival like Oliver Stone.
American actor, fil...
Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi paid a visit to the 36th Fajr International Film Festival on April 21 at Chaharsou Complex where he stated Iran's cinema has the potential to play effective role in the region and the world.
The full Interview comes as following:
1. Would you tell us your general opinion about the 36th Edition of
Fajr Film festival and the local and international films which are being screened?
This festival is a good chance for ...
Isabelle Giordano, the general director of UniFrance, has Headed to Iran to attend the 36th edition of Fajr International Film Festival kicked off officially today in Tehran. She is also a former French journalist with extensive experience in print, television, and radio journalism. Isabelle Giordano also founded the association "Cinema pour Tous" and is a member of several boards of directors: the Forum des Images, the Forum d'Avignon, and the Fondation HSBC pour l'E...
The French director, writer, and editor best known for directing The Red Siren, Transporter 3, Colombiana, and Taken 2, and Taken 3 is attending the 36th edition of Fajr International Film Festival. He said his interest in Iran's cinema has been the biggest motif to participate the ongoing event.
He added despite cultural differences between Iran and France, two countries are still bounded, noting nations could be friends despite the differences.
Interview with Ol...
Italian well-known actor and director, Franco Nero who has been attending the 36th edition of Fajr international film festival said Iran has significantly good directors and casting who can benefit the country's cinema to great extent.
Numerous famous figures of the world cinema have been invited to attend the Fajr festival, which will take place in Tehran from April 19 to 27.
Franco added there are many well-known directors in the country like Asghar Farhadi, Kiarostami and Majid ...
FIFF Organizers Cut the Cake to Celebrate 120 Years of Iranian Cinema
“Beyond the Clouds” directed by Iranian significant filmmaker Majid Majidi is due to be screened in more than 34 regions including the Persian Gulf littoral states, Canada, North African, Pakistan, India, the US, Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and some other countries.
Majidi’s Indian-set film screened as the opening film of the 36th edition of ...
The future of a nation lies in the hands of its youth who are the greatest wealth of their country in all fields and areas. Hence, if we want to ensure a guaranteed future for the world, we need to provide them with right kind of education they need which could benefit them scientifically, logically, culturally, artistically and morally.
Without proper education, our youth couldn’t find their desired path and would remain in great dissatisfaction. Art is no exception. In order t...
Fajr International Film Festival began its adventurous journey with 7th hour and Darolfonoun sections on April 17th. There are so many young and brilliant foreign university students attending the Darolfonoun section this year.
We had an Interview with Khane Poghosyan, Armenian student of documentary film making .She is attending Darolfonoun section of Fajr International Film Festival this year.
Interview with her comes as following:
1. What made you choose Darolfonoun section...
The 7th Hour section of the 36th edition of the international Fajr film festival kicked off on April 17th in Charsou complex in Tehran.
This section of the festival designed for middle school students will screen 7 feature films along with 4 short films directed by Iranian and international filmmakers.
The festival communications’ director Ahad Michaeilzadeh referred to the section’s lineup and said, the opening film for the 7th Hour would be “150 Mi...
International Competition (Cinema Salvation) Jury
Giovanni Spagnoletti
Born in Milan, 12/02/1949, Giovanni SPAGNOLETTI studied in Rome and at the “Freie Universität” in Berlin and received a degree in German studies at the roman university “La Sapienza” with the maximum grade. Since 1991 he has taught “Cinema and Criticism” at “La Sapienza” and since November 2000 has been Professor of Cinema and Criticism at Rome’s “Tor ...
Iranian officials including the Head of Iranian Cinema Organization, Mohammad Mehdi Heidarian Visited the opening day of the 36th edition of Fajr international film festival kicked off today in Tehran at Charsou Cinema complex. University and middle school students attended the two sections including Daroulfonoun and the 7th Hour started today aiming to motivate them to watch and learn more.
Following comes the interview with Mohammad Mehdi Heidarian,
1. A...
French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, best known for Francois Truffaut’s 400 Blows and Jean Luc Godard’s Masculin Feminin, is heading his way to help celebrate the 36th edition of Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.
The French actor’s career has gone hand in hand with the great directors of the French New Wave, but he has remained a compelling and continuing presence long after that movement ended. He has influenced a further generation of French directors, as...
At a press conference in Tehran on Wednesday, Festival Director Reza Mirkarimi said 12 foreign films and 3 Iranian films will be shown. Here are all the feature-length titles screening:
A Call to Father (2017)
104 min
Director: Seric Aprymov
Cast: Zhiger Mirzabek, Aizada Satybaldieva, Erbolat Ospankulov
Language: Kazakh
Country: Kazakhstan
Synopsis
Yerken is unlike his peers. He confuses reality with fantasy. His mother is desperate as public school typically doesn’t admit k...
Acclaimed American director, screenwriter and producer, three-times Oscar winner, Oliver Stone is scheduled to attend the 2018 Fajr International Film Festival.
Festival Director Reza Mirkarimi broke the news at a presser in Tehran on Wednesday. The legendary film maker is best known for the hit films Platoon, Scarface, Born on the Fourth of July and Natural Born Killers.
Oliver Stone, by name of William Oliver Stone, (born September 15, 1946) is known for his ambitio...
Pat Collins’ Song of Granite, about the life of folk singer Joe Heaney, which was Ireland’s selection for best foreign-language film at the 2018 Academy Awards, will screen in the International Competition category of this year’s Fajr International Film Festival.
Collins’ retracing of the colorful journey of the sean-nós singer is poetic, innovative and a treat to all lovers of Irish folk music. In order to tell the story of sean-nós (old style) ...
The recipient of Fajr Peace Award 2018 has been announced. Writer-director Rithy Panh of Cambodia will receive the Award for his cinematic works which mostly focus on humanitarian issues.
Panh is co-producer of documentary film First They Killed My Father
(2017) by Angelina Jolie, which focuses on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It was selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 90th Academy Awards.
The Fa...
The 36th Fajr International Film Festival will start on April 19 with the screening of Majid Majidi’s Beyond the Clouds.
Starring Ishaan Khatter and Malavika Mohanan, Beyond The Clouds is scheduled to be released on April 20 in 34 territories across the world besides India as well.
The film will be released in over 70 screens across the Persian Gulf region in places like Dubai, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar. The film will also be released in the United States, Canada, Pakistan, Singa...
A new book on Abbas Kiarostami and his cinema will be unveiled in Tehran concurrent with the 2018 Fajr International Film Festival.
The book includes articles and translated materials written about the late Iranian film director of Where is the Friend’s House?, Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees, Close Up, A Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, Ten, Shirin, Certified Copy, and Like Someone in Love.
Kiarostami is largely credited for his contributions to the Iranian New ...
According to the Secretariat of this year’s event, the director and two cast members will attend the film screening, which is a 2017 co-production of Iraq, Canada, Britain, France, Qatar, and The Netherlands.
The Journey is a 2017 Iraqi drama film directed by Al-Daradji. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
Mohamed Al Daradji was born in 1978 in Baghdad. He is a producer and director, known for Son of Babylon (2009), ...
Aga (2018), a new feature film by Milko Lazarov, is an entry in the Competition Section of this year’s Fajr International Film Festival.
A joint production of Bulgaria, Germany and France, Aga was an entry in the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. Both Lazarov and producer of Aga, Veselka Kiriakova, who has worked with Milko Lazarov since his first film Alienation, will attend the screening to talk about their joint production. Producer Kiriakova has worked with Lazarov since his first ...
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About Fajr International Film Festival
 Fajr International Film Festival,held on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in February,aims at acting as a bridge between national cinemas from the East and the West and emphasing film art`s potentialities for presentation of spiritual values.
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