If you want to know about the state of Iranian cinema in 1403 (2024/25): "There has been no news; the same situation as 1402 (2023/24), seasoned with a variable called a ticket-price increase, and nothing else."
Of the 10 highest-grossing films of 1403 (2024/25), 8 were comedies. The film "70si," with 342 billion tomans, was the highest-grossing film of Iranian cinema in 1403 (2024/25).
The feature film "Mast-e Eshgh," with box office revenue of 120.3 billion tomans, and the animation "Bebeyi the Hero," with box office revenue of 67.9 billion tomans, were the two non-comedy films among the year's 10 highest-grossing films.
The absence of policymaking and of a combined economic and cultural perspective—or, in simpler terms, the very failure to look at Iranian cinema through the lens of the cultural and creative industries—has reduced the size and coordinates of Iran's cinema market to the box office of a few comedy films and the attaching of superlative attributes to them.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian