Turkish filmmakers keen to cooperate with Iran’s RIFF

Members of Turkey’s Homeland Party have expressed their readiness to cooperate and take part in the holding of Iran's Resistance International Film Festival (RIFF), reports say.

Representatives of the anti-imperialist party visited the secretariat of RIFF, and expressed their readiness to promote the festival in Turkey, Mehr News Agency reported Tuesday.

Kayahan Chetan, the head of the delegation and the chief of youth union of Homeland Party, said “I am very happy that I am in the ancient country of Iran and I am proud to be familiar with such an important anti-imperialist festival,” he said, in reference to the RIFF.

Noting that Iran and turkey maintain good cultural ties, he vowed to “utilize all our cultural capacities to support the resistance movement and the oppressed people of Palestine.”

“Holding a big and important event such as the Resistance International Film Festival is very significant and we have to use the superb and eloquent language of art, in order to echo the policy of the resistance front in confronting the oppression and the global tyranny, in the world.”

During their visit, the delegation met Jalal Ghafari, the secretary of the 17th edition of RIFF, and Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, the head of the Revolution and Sacred Defense Cinema Society, among others.

For his part, Hosseini expressed his pleasure at the group of student filmmakers’ visit, noting that the cultural similarities between Iran and Turkey can pave the way for making more joint films and exchanging experience.

The RIFF, one of the most prestigious international film festivals in Iran, is dedicated to productions on wars and the repercussions of armed conflicts in the world.

It also puts a spotlight on the resistance of the Palestinian people against the Zionist regime, Daesh and their terrorist attacks in the region as well as the world’s tyrants and their backing of Daesh.

The 17th edition of the biennial festival of RIFF will take place on March 3-8, 2023 in the southern city of Bandar Abbas.

The upcoming edition of the event will be held on a warship in the Persian Gulf.

Jalal Ghafari, the secretary of the 17th edition of the event, said “We suggested to hold the festival in an important location such as on the deck of Shahid Soleimani warship to deliver an important message to the world”.

The newly unveiled Shahid Soleimani warship is named after Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by the US military in 2020.

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