recognition as the best animation category was officially added to the award list of the fadge international film festival only six years ago in 2019 and that year in the 37th edition of the festival the first ever crystal seymore was awarded to feature length animation movie, the last fiction by ashkanzar receiving the honor, and this was all thanks eight movies that were submitted. the secretariat of the festival four years earlier, drawing attention to this new form of artistic expression, gaining foothold in the industry with the one called the return by muhammad amin hamedani, gaining recognition. all this can be traced back to the first animation that entered the festival, jamshid and korsheed by aliraza yahmon, an animation movie that made history in 2005, when it appeared on the shortlist of

the movies of the festival.

you may be thinking that the faj film festival is exclusive to filmmakers. critics and journalists, but no, public screenings are available for ordinary people who line up to watch the movies. the fach international film festival is famous for its public screenings. and during

the second week of this major cultural event, 56 movie theaters in different provinces across the country also hosted the faj film festival with people lining up, and according to schedule, the films of the festival were screened, drawing cinema enthusiasts to the movie theaters for a full week, and that is why the fadge international film festival, iran's most prestigious cinematic event is often referred to as as national celebration of the art of cinema, ghazali cinematown is the biggest cinema set in iron where the most iconic... historical

movies have been filmed, could you think of better place for foreign filmmakers to visit? well, the guests of the faj film festival did exactly that. spending half a day in iran's biggest and most prominent movie set turned out to be a unique experience for the foreign guests of the faj international film festival. my name is hal and i've come here from pakistan. it's my first time in iran. i'm really honored to be participating in fajar film festival. i could never have thought that i'll be able to visit iran if it were not for this festival. i'm really happy to have visited the media town uh where there are film studios. i am amazed to know that around 100 or more than 100 feature films are in made in iran every year. this has really inspired me to watch iranian films. many years ago when i was little i watched

children of heaven in which there were child actors, i really liked that film and in pakistan it's very difficult for us to watch iranian films, we don't know much about these films, but we know... that iranian culture is rich with ideas, philosophy and literature, so i'd like to go home and watch more iranian films on youtube. i was here to explore how i can uh link young filmmakers in pakistan with opportunities in iran, maybe do some co-production uh and discuss some possibilities about exchanging content. a lot of young filmmakers in pakistan are struggling to have their work marketed in other countries. i was really happy to have visited all the stalls. in the film market and explore some possibilities for connecting young filmmakers between the two countries.

located on the outskirts of the iranian capital, tehran with area of about 115. square meters, gazali cinematown, as it is commonly referred to, was built over four decades ago. back then, the movie set was designed for the filming of the epic historical drama tv series, directed by ali hotami called hazard dastan, one of the most important and most influential works of art in the history of iran's broadcasting. i'm from. bangladesh, i a festival director of the dhaka international film festival, this is my 30 years, i'm coming this festival, first i've been here in 1994 and this is 2024, it's a 30 years, it's my 17 times, i've been many times in iran and many films i have

screen in my festival and also i am very happy that i know many types of filmmaker and actor actress from iran. 'who has visited our festival and we have very good partnership with the iranian films and our audience, our audience definitely like the iranian films, without iranian films we cannot have the festival, so this is the one of the major things, mean what we have iranian segment, this year we had master class, majid majidi was dhaka and he had masterclass in dhaka, it was very successful and i'm really looking forward in future'. will do more better, i'm a jury of the eastern vista, the asian section jury, we have 11 films, we have still filmed need to watch, then finally we can say we are watching and we have very good numbers of films is there, so inshallah will come

decided very soon, mean which one is the best and which which one is got the award and overall i'm sure pretty good. selection is there, so many international delegates is there, so it's very nice, good, everything is okay, perfect, this film city have been at least four times before in my life, first first in 1994 i was there, first in first time, later i visited three times at least, so what is your impression of this? it's a beautiful, like i can't think about it and bangladesh, we cannot think about it, but definitely it's a like role model if the... "my government give me a support, if they wants me, then i will bring them here, come and see these things and try to build in our country. throughout the years, the locations

that have been replicated here include iconic cities of the pre-islamic and post islamic era, but probably the most favorite part is terron during the 19th." 30s, 40s and 50s, before, during and after world war ii. this part of the movie set has been used numerous times for the filming of big budget movies and tv series. "my name is carolina coney and i am from zimbabwe in africa and um how many times have you come to iran or the faj film festival? uh well i've been here before, i've stayed here for like close to 10 years because my father used to work here, but now i've come for the first time attending the fudge film festival

and it feels great. so what is your position attending the festival like were your jury or guess or oh i'm a guest at the festival for now and um how do you see the movies? i think the movies are so..." good, the selection was really, really good and there's a big variety of genres and like themes and all that, so i've really enjoyed my time here, did you just watch the international section or the iranian movies? no, also the iranian movies, i love those. as well, okay, can you like name one or two from the iranian or the international section? okay, okay, okay, this is the whole thing, there was one about a tree, i think was ser of a tree or something like that, i thought that was really good, and then the one from bangladesh as well was really good, but i forgot what it's called, bangladesh was, i think something about it, yeah, exactly, exactly, but it was very good film, i've actually met one of the zamzam was the director, exactly, so good, it was such a good film, loved it uh, and then from the iranian ones i can't really say wars anymore, but like really good films as usual, love them, good, and um, also how did you find the

experience here, like we've started um touring first, but um, it's the azali cinematown, so what do you say about it? i think it's very good, it is such very, very big place, didn't think it would be that big, i think because it's different from my country, i'm quite impressed, we've just seen one of the workshops where they work on the attires and the costume designing, i thought that was amazing, they have like it's a whole business going on here in entire. industry, it's so impressive, i love it. in the workshops here, everything set in costume designers might need is made from scratch, and currently another big budget production is keeping everyone busy. a 60 episode tv series depicting the life of salman al-farsei, a persian religious scholar and one of the company'. of prophet muhammad, peace be upon him. my name is julia, i

represent russia here. this is my first time in iran and first time at the parch film festival. i am so excited to be here. i'm having a great experience meeting iranian producers, iranian filmmakers and i see lot of potential for our countries to collaborate. so we are spending this time. getting to know each other, finding ways for building a stronger relationships, so i hope that after this film festival and this wonderful film market, which i very much appreciate for having me, that we're going to have very strong collaboration for the next upcoming years, based on the information we got from the videos, i understand that many films and showed that there are many possibilities to make different films, the fact that you see all this in a country that

is not considered western makes it even more impressive. i think there is lot of potential and i am hopeful about the future cooperation, i'm so impressed of what i see here, i think there are a lot of possibilities for coming and filming here at the studio and just at the teran itself. i am very impressed by what i see here, there's a lot happening, judging what what i have seen so far, i am sure that great movies and television series have been filmed here, i'm excited to find out what projects are underway. currently owned by iran's national television, irib, grazali cinematown offers

great opportunities for joint movie projects, and therefore the foreign participants of the faj international film festival who are all one way or another involved in the film industry, were eager to know how this could be possible. irib representatives were present to provide them with all the necessary details. i used to come here to see the iranian movies all because i am also connected and the film selector of the kolkata international film festival kolkata children film festival i have come to select some of latest redon movies and also 2023 movies because this year

in our colcatta film festival, this is one of the largest film festival with a award money of 51 laks laks, the are actually we have see we have received 15 iranian film for the competition and i saw all of the name and we selected three or four films iranian th cinema one of the best film i cinema for their story telling, everything, it's like the indian movies, not the commercial one, not the bollywood one, but the other time of movies, since i am from calcatta, bengali, so calcatta and bengali movies. are similar to iranian movies like story telling, their sorrows, their loves and everything, family affairs, everything is same. iranian animation, i must like and i selected this year also in our children festival, there are 15 iranian movies, their children films, out of feature films, there are eight feature films and there are more than 10 shorts and

documentary in children movies and with the anima

and now the moment of truth. in the closing ceremony, we'll find out which movies will be taking home, the top prize.

festival rewarded almost as expected, well, as we can see, and you're aware, films from different countries was screened in the festival this year, and as expected, in the interfath section, an honorary diploma was awarded to iranian cinematographer, mr. mahmoud kalari for the movie summertime. summertime is very poetic film that depicts

and narrates the life of family in iran after the second world war in the 40s and 50s. "the very familiar perspective that mahmoud khari himself has when describing his own past and childhood memories. the next film that received the main interface award is the movie love passion, directed by mr. daryush yari. love passion presents an attractive and different narrative of ashura and the battle of karbala to its audience. mr. yari was able to impress the jury and many movie critics in the special section. dedicated to palestine in this year's festival, the section dubbed palestine, spirit and soul, we had a lineup of very good movies. most of the awards in this section were given to iranian films. only two of the awards were given to foreign films. the lineup in this section mostly included movies about war and its ramifications. the movie that received an

honorary diploma was a film called flight 175 from iran a very poetic story said during the eight year iran-iraq war that we refer to as the holy defense. this movie narrates very interesting love story. it's about a boy who finds a ring inside the... belly of fish, later we find out that this ring belonged to volunteer soldier that fought in the eight-year war between iran and iraq, the jury awarded the main prize of this section to khairollah takhiyanipur, the iranian cinematographer who entered the festival this year with his movie, the heart of raka. the film narrates very exciting story about the presence of iran's secret service members and intelligence forces and how... they were able to infiltrate the daesh terrorist group during the time they controlled the syren city of racca. the film reveals the very positive impact that iran's intelligence

forces had in the fight against daesh. the top secret operations of these forces are recounted in a romantic love story and therefore it was very well received and made huge impact. in the eastern vista section, the jury decided that the best acting award should go to the movie. fatima, the bangladeshi actor of this film was very much appreciated by the jury. in another section, the best screen play was awarded to the film zaher from iran. the film is very poetic. it tells a story of a soldier named zaher who build a strong bond with an elderly couple. he develops an interesting relationship with an old man and his wife who live near the barracks where he is doing his military service. in my opinion. this year the jury was quite fair in choosing the winners. having watched all of the movies in the festival, i personally agree with all of their choices. now moving to the best

director, the award in this category was given to another film from iran, the western sky, very exciting and impactful movie about the life of one of iran's holy defense national heroes, named shaheid shirudi. the movie was very well received, the special. prize of the jury in this section was awarded to a film from kazakhstan and finally, the best film in the eastern wister section was awarded to a movie from mongolia. in the final part of the fage international film festival, namely in the section dupt cinema salvation, we war to the best director award to the spanish movie called upon arrival. well, we know that spanish cinema is considered very rich cinema. it has very good reputation in the world and... has introduced many outstanding directors to world cinema as well, for example we have the famous louis buniel from spain and we also know some of the new cinematographers of spain such as

pedro almodovar who is one of the most important cinematographers in the world today. he has created a great dynamic in spain which we can even see in the field of tv series production. during this year, he has lot to say. regarding the international festival award, in the main competition. finally the best movie award of the cinema salvation section was given to a movie from bulgarian cinema. bulgarian cinema has really reached a very good dynamic and growth during these past few years. giving award to a film from this country shows that. national film festival has the stability that it should, and it has become a base for lesser known films. in fact, the fage festival introduces some very good films to its audience every

year, while also communicating some exclusive ideas with them. and that brings us to the end of our show seamolk, our special coverage of the 42nd fadge international film festival. over the past 10 days we've covered the most interesting news and events for you. if you miss watching any of our editions, you can always log to our website, pressv.ir. goodbye.

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