Iranian cinema is at odds with the child and adolescent genre. Even though this genre is both a need of an age range and can bring good profit to the cinema industry. Just as films in this genre have had good box office in the past.
"Dozd-e Arusakha" and "Kolah Ghermezi va Pesar Khaleh" were, respectively, the most popular children's films of the 60s (1980s) and 70s (1990s). "Kolah Ghermezi va Pesar Khaleh" also ranked third among the highest-grossing films of 1373 (1994/95), with more than 4 million admissions. Even so, the trend of making children's cinematic works declined in the 80s (2000s).
In the 90s (2010s), however, sparks of this genre's revival in Iranian cinema appeared again. With films such as: "City of Mice 2," "Kolah Ghermezi va Bacheh Naneh," and "The Elephant King," which ranked first to third among the highest-grossing children's films of the 90s (2010s).
These days, too, "Bacheh Zerang" is on cinema screens. An animation that, with weekly box office of about 4 billion, once again confirmed audiences' green light to the child-and-adolescent genre.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian