Fajr International Film Festival has announced the titles of movies screening on the Virtual Film Market.
According to the Secretariate of the annual event, 65 short and feature movies from Iran are participating in the ongoing Short Film Market and Feature Film Market. The latter sees 38 feature-length movies screening. The online-only market focuses primarily on market titles and pre-sales, which are the highlights of the Iranian film calendar.
Digital content made by a host of companies and A-list talents, such as video companies, effects producers, broadcasters, independent production companies, commercial enterprises, newly formed start-ups, and online subscription VOD companies such as IPTV are also taking part.
Feature Film Lineup
Maman (Arash Aneessee), The Marriage Project (Hesam Eslami, Atieh Attarzadeh), The Seeker of Orient (Masoud Taheri), The Locust (Faeze Azizkhani), The Sun of That Moon (Setareh Eskandari), Surname (Ali Hadadi), Pain (Azam Najafian, Ali Mohammad Ghasemi), Wolf Cubs of Apple Valley (Fereydoun Najafi), Bone Marrow (Hamid Reza Ghorbani), Nineteen (Manijeh Hekmat), Iranian Animation (Mehrdad Sheykhan), Soundles (Behrang Dezfoulizadeh), The Milky Day (Mahmoud Nouri), The Son (Noushin Meraji) Golden Blood (Ebrahim Sheibani), Among the Hills (Mohammad Reza Keyvanfar) Najibeh (Mostafa Gandomkar), The Forbidden Strings (Hasan Nouri), The Last Breath (Faraz Fadaian), Life Among War Flags (Mohsen Eslamzadeh), Born of the Earth (Mojgan Bayat), Holy Bread (Rahim Zabihi), Pollination Season (Amin Bakhshian) Cineh Ma Rex (Mitra Mehtarian, Sadegh Dehghan) Kal Fatemeh (Mehdi Zamanpour Kiasari), Landless (Touraj Aslani), Amin (Mohamad Torab Beigi, Mehdi Torab Beigi), Nilgoun (Hossein Soheilizadeh), A Bumpy Story (Kamal Tabrizi), Fathers (Salem Salavati), Dizziness (Rasoul Kahani), You Were Busy Dying (Mojtaba Espanani), Sunday Accordion Geranium Flowers (Sharareh Soroush), The Fourth Round (Alireza Amini), Headless (Kaveh Sajjadi Hosseini), Ayeneh Dar (Pouyan Kazemi), Golden Rivers (Reza Majlesi), Tarlan (Seyed Mohamad Hosseini), The Last Diplomat (Amir Tajik), Punch-Drunk (Adel Tabrizi), The Wasteland (Ahmad Bahrami), Boy (Noushin Meraji), and Me and Deborah (Ziaeddin Dorri).
Short Film Lineup
Stone Wings (Amen Sahraei), Slow Death (Amen Sahraei), Divinity (Farnoush Abedi), The Bitter End of Khounbas (Seyed Mehdi, Mousavi Shirazi), 113 (Neda Asef), Dabur (Saeed Nejati), Nahid (Samad Alizadeh), Movement (Rouzbeh Kazemi), Vadiyar (Marjan Khosravi), Still (Anis Naseri), Echo (Mahin Sadri), Mirror (Faranak Moradi), Doll (Nasrin Golreyhan), Leo (Moein Rouholamini),The Spinning Top (Shiva Momtahen), Dear (Mehdi Barzouki), The Shepherd (Rahman Pouladian), A Drop of Blood From Nazanin (Kavous Aghaee), Soha (Mohammad Borzouipour),The Cloak (Naqmeh Maghsoudlou), The Chick (Bijan Aarabi), and I am Iranian (Alireza Kavian Rad).
The 2021 FIFF is currently underway in the Iranian capital until June 2. This year’s cinematic event is presided over by Iranian film director and screenwriter Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour. The festival is widely considered one of the most prestigious and influential in Asia, Europe and Greater Middle East.
