This study was published in Shahrivar (August–September) 1396 (2017/18) on the occasion of National Cinema Day, and in it the warnings that filmmakers give about the state of cinema are categorized and diagnosed, and their reasons are examined. It then enumerates the solutions that individuals have offered.
Three important questions form the basis of this study;
1. What are the existing opportunities in Iranian cinema?
2. What are the existing threats and challenges in Iranian cinema?
3. What solutions do filmmakers have for improving the state of cinema?
An important problem in the distribution of cinematic productions is the shortage of cinema halls, such that nearly a thousand cities in Iran have no cinema at all. The filmmakers who assisted in this study believe that political and factional views, as well as monopolistic groups in cinema, have caused many cinema practitioners to be sidelined. Filmmakers put the investment risk in cinema at about 90% and believe that cinema has not gone beyond the level of "services" and is not even close to the "industry" stage.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian