Last year Namafar published a post titled "The box office's split from the festival" in which the performance of Fajr Festival films in the years 1400 (2021/22), 1399 (2020/21), and 1398 (2019/20) had been examined.
In this post we turned to films screened in 1402 (2023/24). In this year, with non-festival comedies dominating the Iranian cinema box office, the share of festival films among the ten highest-grossing films of this year was only three titles: Bacheh Zarang, Temsah Khooni, and Se Kam Habs.
It appears that what limits the box-office share of films that were successful at, or even merely present in, the Fajr Film Festival is precisely this dominance of non-festival comedy films over the box office. If these films are left out of consideration, works present at the Fajr Festival take a larger share in the list of top films by number of admissions or by box office revenue.
See the original infographic (Persian)
Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian