Constructed Gender Identity in the Works of Souda Simorgh of the 40th Fajr Film Festival

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