Hello Cinema program to spread across Iran

Iran has initiated a program titled Hello Cinema, to help bring cinema to underdeveloped regions of the country.

Based on the ‘Hello Cinema’ plan, people in disadvantaged areas can watch films in mobile movie theatres taken to their towns and villages.

The plan has been recently launched from deprived regions of Fars Province in southern Iran, where the mobile movie theatres take movies to small cities and rural areas.

Hello Cinema will be extended to other Iranian provinces as well.

Expressing his pleasure, Iranian lawmaker Mohammad-Baset Dorrazehi said, “There is no cinema in many Iranian cities and regions. The plan makes all people able to enjoy watching films in movie theatres.”

Noting that cinema lovers have to travel to other towns if there is no cinema in their own area, which raises their costs, he added, “This plan reduced people’s costs; it is a good point.”

“Cinema Salam can be a good, temporary solution” for the long lines at box offices of Iranian cinema theaters, he said.

“However, we should not forget that the need for stable cinema theaters with more facilities is felt today, as the people, the youth in particular, demand them,” Dorrazehi also noted.

He further explained that the cinema industry helps people to acquire information and promotes culture. “The government should consider facilities for the private sector to do so.”

Believing that the private sector’s capacity can be tapped into for the construction of movie theatres in deprived regions, the lawmaker said, “The Iranian youth in many provinces needs to have fun, and cinema is a good way to have group fun.”

MG/AI