This report is a cultural monitoring study by the Research Institute for Culture, Art and Communication and describes the overall state of Iranian cinema in 1398 (2019/20). According to the report that was prepared, economic difficulties, natural disasters such as the COVID pandemic, political unrest, and national mourning in that year did not cause a complete shutdown of Iranian cinema. This report lists the problems named above and examines the extent of their impact on Iranian cinema.
In this report, policymaking in this field (administrative, managerial, economic, and financial) is reviewed and critiqued. Filmmaking activity in that year is presented, and the roles of each institution are reported separately.
According to the existing report, Iranian cinema is described in a few sentences: cinema is still not recognized as cheap entertainment and has not reached the general public's ideal. Cinema is an element that boosts other businesses, but it still cannot compete with products from other countries.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian