TEHRAN-- The 41st edition of the Fajr Film Festival, Irans crucial movie event, has actually revealed its lineup for the official competition.As opposed to previous years, when the names of the movies taking part in the celebration were exposed previously, the lineup of this edition of the celebration was launched on Thursday.Twenty-four movies are set up to compete in the celebration, which will be held from February 1 to 11.
The Case Is Open by Kiumars Purahmad, Why Dont You Cry by Alireza Motamedi, and The Stranger by Mohammad-Hossein Latifi are the highlights of the lineup.
The Case Is Open represents the case of Behnud Shojai, who was convicted of murder when he was still a teenager and had not yet reached the legal age.
After four years in prison and reaching the legal age of 18 in 2008, he was executed.
Why Dont You Cry , with a cast of popular actors, informs the story of a man who has lost the capability to weep, and the impact it has on his life.
Produced by the Owj Arts and Media Organization, The Stranger represents the IRGC commander Mohammad Borujerdis struggles against separatists in western Iran to preserve the territorial integrity in the region in the early 1980s.
The lineup also consists of Cinema Metropol by Mohammad-Ali Bashe-Ahangar, Vabel by Turaj Aslani, High Power by Hadi Mohammadpur, Number Ten by Hamid Zargarnejad, Master by Seyyed Emad Hosseini and Leather Jacket by Hossein Mirzamohammadi.
The Fajr Film Festival is arranged every year from February 1 to 11 to commemorate the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.Fajrs international section classifications divided from the festival in 2014, when the Cinema Organization of Iran, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the primary organizer of the event, revealed that the worldwide competition would be held individually from the national section for the very first time in 2015.
Image: Actor Babak Hamidian acts in a scene from The Stranger by Mohammad-Hossein LatifiABU/