جشنواره فیلم فجر

Despite the importance of evaluating and judging cultural and artistic products, the lack of objective and clear criteria in film festivals, especially in Fajr Film Festival, has caused a lot of complaints and confusion among artists, and this important cultural, artistic and has faced many challenges. The first question that must be answered to evaluate movies is, what are the criteria for evaluating or judging the film? Unfortunately, there is no clear answer in this regard, and judges always use their knowledge and lived experience in judging without a brief or extensive explanation of the reasons for choosing or not choosing a film. Even if the arbitrator or group of arbitrators change, the selections and results of the arbitrator may also change. The reason for this is the lack of clear criteria for judging. Therefore, each judge makes criteria for himself based on the findings and aesthetic criteria he has for an art product and judges based on that. For this reason, in this research, an effort has been made to achieve the goal of turning the tacit knowledge of film festival judges and cinema experts into objective and explicit knowledge and providing clear criteria for evaluating movies and their jobs. This research has a qualitative approach and has used "database theory" as a research method. For this purpose, by using interviews, which is the most common method of extracting tacit knowledge at the individual level, the opinions of a group of experts related to the field of filmmaking, who have the record of judging various festivals, were collected, categorized and analyzed. placed Based on the collected data, criteria and indicators have been determined for each of the awards for the main filmmaking jobs. These criteria, which can be used in film festivals, are as follows in each section:Production: attention to the cultural needs of the society, creativity, importance of the subject, issues affecting the society, audience friendlinessCinematography: framing, image aesthetics, paying attention to the world of the text, helping the director to create the desired atmosphere, mastering the tools and technology, light and techniqueScreenwriting: importance of idea and subject, characterization, power of dialogue, plot, structureDirection: creativity, decoupage, mise-en-scène, story processing, paying attention to the cultural priorities of society Acting: mastery of the body and physical capacities in playing a role, awareness of one's individual capacity, mastery of speech in expressing dialogues,Attention to the world of the script, attention to the hidden details of the roleSuggestions: Based on the obtained results, in addition to presenting a basic suggestion and two correction suggestions, the application of indicators for conducting the judging process in the Fajr Film Festival has been emphasized with two conditions in the structural reform of the selection of selected works: the first condition is that the indicators Creating should not cause a qualitative process to become quantitative, and another condition is that the creation of indexes should not be considered as a monitoring tool to apply the opinion of managers and influence the artistic view of judges. Considering the mentioned conditions, it is suggested that the evaluation criteria of the movies in the desired jobs should be specified and informed to the participants through discussion with the judges before the festival, and university professors or critics who, in addition to paying attention to The formalist approach, they also pay attention to theoretical minutes, should be used in the group of judges.

Film festivals are a symbol of the growth of the culture and art of a society, which have been formed with the aim of achieving a discourse and cinematic form that fits the ideals of that society. Fajr Film Festival is the most important domestic festival in Iran, which, like other film festivals, plays an important role in determining the aesthetic criteria of the film and determines the direction of cinema in the coming year. Gender identity and, in other words, femininity/masculinity, is one of the most important topics that is represented every year at the Fajr Film Festival and calls the audience to rethink their gender identity.In this article, an attempt was made to analyze femininity/masculinity in the three areas of the individual, family and society in the works of the 40th Fajr Film Festival with a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods (theme analysis, questionnaires, focused interviews). The results show that the status of gender identity, especially masculinity, is distorted in the field of personal identity, and a small percentage of the men of the 40th festival can be attractive heroes for the audience. This situation is also repeated in family identity. Regarding the social communication between men and women in the society, in other words, the type of interaction between men and women in the society, the 40th festival has scored (-0.44) out of 20. In other words, in the social behavior of Iranian men with women, more coercion and misogyny are represented than respect and dignity

Representing Women's Identity in Iranian Cinema (Discourse Analysis of the Works of Female Cinema Directors at the 35th Fajr Film Festival) One of the most challenging topics in representation studies is the representations made by women and the different aspects of their lives. Accordingly, this study has attempted to analyze the discourse of female identity in the works of female directors at the 35th Fajr Film Festival in 2017. The results of the analysis show that the central concepts in the four selected films generally refer to the representation of common feminine characteristics, traditional female characteristics, and modern female characteristics. Traditional female characteristics include motherhood as the most important role, tendency for patriarchy, tolerance of difficult family circumstances, adherence to the rules of emotional relationships, family orientation, and opposition to new phenomena, and features of modern women include selfishness, courage, belief Equal rights, disobedience to the spouse, displacement of traditional roles, and the lack of importance of housekeeping. Common feminine traits include emotional and sensuality, the importance of maternal role, family the source of security, the need for emotional interactions in the family, maintaining the family with positive relationships, and sacrifice. Keywords: Woman identity representation, discourse analysis, female director, Iranian Fajr Film Festival

Fajr Movie Festival, in the present situation of Iranian cinema, is the best opportunity for offering cultural, artistic, and even economic aspects of the movies produced during a year in Iran so that filmmakers can make a better cultural, artistic,. .., communication. This festival is also an opportunity which provides a holistic evaluation of Iranian cinema as well as the activities of cinema authorities. Besides, it is a short opportunity which presents the whole movie production potential of Iran. In this respect, a survey was conducted through telephone interviews to people over 15 years old inhabiting in 22 districts of Tehran concurrent with Fajr festival in Bahman 1388 (February 2010). The telephone numbers of the home in 22 districts were selected randomly and the sample consisted of 1065 participants. The results revealed that the purpose of 42.9 percent of respondents who participated in this festival was "watching the movies which were not yet publicly displayed" and 40% of the participants believed that "there was no movie in this festival that was not permitted to public display or participation in the festival". 40 – 49 years old Participants (58.3%) and 15-19 years old participants (37.1%) were most and least interested respondents in Iranian movies, respectively. 86.3% respondents consider movie subject while 57.1% of them consider movie advertisements as the factors significantly contributing to the attractiveness of movies. People over 50 years (80.6%) more than others and people of 15 to 19 years old (22.7%) less than others stated that they had never gone to the cinema during last year. In other words, the frequency of cinema attendance decreases by the increase in age and vice versa.

The 28th Fajr International Movie Festival was held in the first half of Bahman (5-15) 1388 (February 2010). In this study, the viewpoints of 32 cinema experts and authorities (writer, director, producer, actor and actress, critic, composer, etc) are collected through specialized interviews. The interviews which were conducted in Bahman 12th and 13th 1388 in the festival hall (Milad Tower) had interesting results. After holding 28 festivals, cinema authorities consider the following advantages for Fajr Movie Festival: Creation of a competitive atmosphere for filmmakers and motivating other filmmakers to make higher quality movies; Identifying weaknesses of the movies and correcting them before public show; Identifying works and subjects more attractive to audiences and critics of Iranian cinema; An annual opportunity for interaction and exchanging views on the developments of Iranian cinema.Most cinema experts believe that although organizing festival and providing its expenses is done by the government, a realistic look confirms that organizing festival by government at present time can be beneficial; this is while presence of a permanent independent organization or an academy for the festival can open up a new horizon for Iranian Cinema.Most cinema experts of the country believe that getting award by a movie in the festival brings credit to the movie and its producers. This is even stronger in the case of young movie producers and actors or actresses and has a great effect on their popularity among people and cinema experts. Most interviewed experts evaluate the effect of Fajr movie festival on the credit and position of Iranian cinema at international level positive but trivial. From the viewpoint of cinema experts, the trend of festival during past 28 years has been growing and improving, although due rapid change of cinema authorirties in various years it was very different with many ups and downs.