🔻Except for the past two years, the Fajr Festival each year had among its awards an option named "Crystal Simorgh for Best Film from the People's Perspective." This award, which was granted according to popular votes, gave the festival a special excitement, and in these two years its absence is fully felt. Looking at the genre of works that have won this Simorgh makes us more familiar with the taste of this Fajr Festival's audiences over these years.
🔻It appears that while the festival jury has, more often, considered national or Sacred Defense (Iran–Iraq War) subjects or genres in the 90s (2010s) worthy of the Crystal Simorgh for Best Film, audiences have preferred films in the social genre. Of course in some cases audiences and judges have also been of the same opinion. Like the 33rd edition, in which "Rakh-e Divaneh" both received a Simorgh from the judges and attracted the audience's opinion. "Majara-ye Nimruz" too, in the 35th edition, had the same story.
🔻Saeed Roustayi is the only director who has twice in the 90s (2010s) won the Simorgh for Best Film from the People's Perspective. On the other hand, Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian is the only director who in this decade has twice succeeded in winning the Fajr Festival's Best Film award.
❓How do you interpret the difference in taste between the festival's audiences and judges?
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian