Mobile cinema to take off in Iran’s Bushehr Province

A mobile cinema will travel around the coastal Iranian province of Bushehr, making it the country’s second province to have a mobile cinema.

The mobile cinema will have a program with a touristic aspect, providing entertainment facilities for holidaymakers in Bushehr Province, according to Seyed Mostafa Abtahi, managing director of Visual Media Institute, which is affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.

“The less privileged cities of Bushehr, Kerman and Khuzestan will join ‘Salam Cinema’ program,” Abtahi said, in which people in remote areas can enjoy movies screened by mobile cinemas.

The mobile cinema will be up and running by the end of the current fiscal year in March.

“Fars Province is already equipped with eight mobile cinemas and Bushehr will have five,” Abtahi added.

Around 1,000 cities in Iran do not have cinema halls and Visual Media Institute is trying to fill the gap with the quick-launching of 100 mobile cinemas in the 30 remaining provinces, including Bushehr.

“By the end of the next fiscal year in March 2018, there will be no city without mobile cinema,” Abtahi said.

Kerman and Khuzestan Provinces will soon follow Bushehr, with provinces in cold climates covered after spring.

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