Why has the Fajr Festival been taken over by social drama?!
At the 43rd Fajr Film Festival, 32 feature films are being screened, of which 20 films fall into various genres of social drama, sports drama, and historical drama. In other words, more than 60 percent of the films of the 43rd festival are in the drama genre.
Despite the diversity of tastes among audiences, a major share of this year's festival films is devoted to the drama and social genre. This trend indicates the influence of prevailing, non-transformative currents in Iranian cinema on the genre mix of films.
This mix, which in recent years has usually been observed at the Fajr Festival, raises an interesting question: despite Iranian audiences' interest in a diversity of genres such as mystery and action, why do we still see a greater concentration on social drama films? Is producing films in this genre easier? Or do social stories still hold greater appeal for filmmakers?
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian