Fifth day of Fajr Film Festival under spotlight

Two features were screened on the fifth day of the Fajr Film Festival (FFF), which has been underway in the Iranian capital Tehran since Monday.

The movies which were screened on Friday are ‘Motherless’ and ‘Squad of Girls’.

Directed by Seyyed-Morteza Fatemi, ‘Motherless’ tells the story of a couple whose life goes through some hard challenges after making some new decisions. Its cast list includes Mitra Hajjar, Amir Aqaee, and Pejman Jamshidi.

Made by Monir Qeydi, ‘Squad of Girls’ shows the resistance and self-sacrifice of women in the early days of the Iraq-Iran war. By reconstructing live and documentary images of the house-to-house battle in Khorramshahr, the director has created the first cinematic image of the resistance from a female perspective. The cast list includes Niki Karimi, Pantea Panahiha, Fereshteh Hosseini, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Sadaf Asgari, and Hossein Soleimani.

A lineup of 22 films, most made by the new generation of Iranian filmmakers, are competing in the main competition section of the FFF.

Presided over by Masoud Naqqashzadeh, the 40th FFF is taking place in Tehran on February 1-11, 2022 in two cultural and competitive sections.

The FFF coincides with the Ten-Day Fajr ceremonies across Iran, marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Since its establishment in 1982, the FFF has played a vital role in the development of Iranian Cinema.

Supervised by Iran’s Ministry of Culture, the festival hosts veteran directors and new filmmakers from Iran every year.

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