The ceremony was attended by the Director of the festival Alireza Tabesh, Head of Iran’s Cinema Organization Hossein Entezami, Isfahan’s Mayor Qodratollah Norouzi, and the President of Isfahan City Council Alireza Nasr, as well as several other figures.

The festival kicked off on in Isfahan on August 18 and by the closing ceremony on August 26, more than 180 films were screened.

This year, as a result of Iranian Youth Cinema Society and Farabi Cinema Foundation, children all across Iran shared the excitement and joy of the festival, and in 146 areas of the country the films were screened for the children from flood-hit and less-privileged areas, Tabesh said.

Cinema is a collective art and the genre of children and young adults requires a national resolution, Tabesh noted adding that the Farabi Foundation and the related institutes are fully prepared to join forces to support valuable films for children and youth.

Then, the representative of Isfahan General Directorate of Welfare handed the award of “Hope Manifestation” to Hamidreza Qotbi for making the “That Night’s Train”.

Qotbi said that the film has taken the environment to consideration, and luckily, the children starring in the film agreed that they could make a difference in protecting the environment.

Then head of Iran’s Cinema Organization said that at the present meeting, we are acknowledging those who contributed to the promotion of children’s film festival.

The speech was followed by awarding the cash prize and the diploma of appreciation to Babak Nabizadeh, director of “The Ocean Beyond the Window”.

In the interval of the award ceremony, some scenes of the nostalgic Iranian films and TV series for children, such as “The Tales of Majid”, “Bashu”, “The Little Stranger”, and “Bag of Rice” were played by teenage actors.

The representative of Tehran Municipality, in another part of the ceremony, awarded the prizes of popular campaign of traffic in Isfahan to Mostafa Nazarizade, director of “Bicyclist’s Hashtag”, Mohammad Azadi, director of “The Ocean Beyond the Window”, and Morteza Hosseini, actor of “The Tales of Majid” and “Absent Third Person”.

The prizes included cash, diplomas of appreciation and bicycles. Then the soundtracks of some nostalgic children films and cartoons were played by a music group.

The prize of Scientific Association of Islamic Mysticism of Iran was awarded to Mahdi Jafari for making “The 23”.

The veteran actor Jahanbakhsh Soltani announced the name of the winners of the Islamic Propagation Office of Qom Seminary to Mahdi Jafari, and Amir Dasargar for “No-Fly Zone” in feature section, Javad Hakami, for his short film “For Amir”.

Mohammad-Ali Soltanzadeh, the producer of “Captain Khorshid”, then, awarded the prize of the Association of Children and Media to Morteza Assemani, director of “Red and Blue”, and Shiva Momtahen director of animation The Spinning Top.

Art Port Institute extended its prizes to Lida Fazli, producer of “This Side, Other Side”. The prize for the feature was awarded to Mahdi Jafari director of “The 23”.

Abbas Jalili-Yekta, director of the short film “Marine Boy” received the prized of Iran Short Film Association.

Children’s Right Convention National Department of Iran’s Ministry of Justice offered its prize to Hamidreza Qotbi, director of “That Nigth’s Train”, and Babak Nabizadeh, director of “The Ocean Beyond the Window”.

The ceremony was rounded up by the speech of Isfahan’s mayor. Norouzi evaluated the festival as an effective way for improving the world of children and expressed hope that by holding such events, good moments and future are created for children.

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Tabesh also stressed the need for boosting cultural ties with Turkey, adding that Isfahan is an important headquarter for children and the youth film festival.
He added that there are great capacities for sisterhood agreement between Isfahan and Konya.

Yarar, for his part, said the event could play a key role for introducing Iran’s children and the youth capacities.

Yarar added the event is a best opportunity to introduce the two countries artistic products.

He said the festival have prepared the ground for Turkish people to become acquainted with Iranian contemporary cinema.

Presided by Tabesh, the 32nd International Film Festival for Children and Youth is currently underway in Province of Isfahan on Aug 19-26, 2019 in the feature, short story, web series, long animation, short animation sections.

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Tabesh expressed hope that the two sides could reach an agreement for producing joint film.

He added the Farabi Cinema Foundation has created a department for producing joint films, adding that Iran attaches great importance to expansion of ties with neighboring countries, Iraq in particular.

“As you know, Iran and Iraq have a lot in common in terms of culture and politics, that is why developing joint filmmaking with Iraq is a priority for Iran,” he said.

“So far, dozens of photo exhibitions on Arbaeen Walk have been held in Iran and the event’s pictures have been taken by Iranian photographers, as well as several films have produced by the Iranian Young Cinema Association. Another of our proposals is to hold a photo exhibition during this important religious event in Iraq,” he added.

In a meantime, the festival International Section Director Raed Faridzadeh said, “One of our proposed subjects is to make a joint feature film on Hashid al-Shaabi.”
The idea was also expressed during a meeting of the two countries’ culture ministers. In this case, we turn political negotiations into pragmatic measures, he added.

Mussa, for his part, said, ” We and the Iranian people have many goals in common and there is a very good relationship between the two countries.”

“Cinema and art can deepen this relationship as well. One of our suggestions is joint film productions. Of course, for co-production, we need to reach something that both parties are satisfied with,” he added.

He added that the Iraqi cinema industry is not active, but there are several movie theaters in Iraq.

“Iranian film “Mohammed Rasulullah” was highly welcomed among the Iraqi people. Iraqi people bought tickets to the movie a week before the movie was released.

“We are ready to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on joint product development and we would like to launch one of the Iranian films about Muharram from the beginning of this month. In addition, we would like to invite the makers of Iranian films to be released in Iraq,” he added.

He also invited the Iranian filmmakers to hold workshops about Iranian cinema in Iraq

“At the time of the screening of Iranian films in Iraqi cinemas, a space could be allocated for displaying photos of the Arbaeen Walk,” the Iraqi official added.

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