Roshd International Film Festival
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Roshd International Film Festival is the oldest Film Festival in Iran
. It is centered around the films with educational and pedagogical themes and is staged every year by the Supplying Educational Media Center, a sub-branch of the Ministry of Education of the I.R.Iran. The Festival seeks the main objectives of identifying and selecting the best educational and pedagogical films in order to introduce them to the educational systems.
Having not been held for a few years, the 15th International Educational Film Festival was the first International Educational Film Festival to be staged after the Islamic Revolution in Iran in May 1985. It was held at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and 21 countries from all over the world participated in it.
From the 20th festival on, the official name of the festival turned into its current name, i.e. "Roshd International Educational Film Festival". For the first time in 1993, Roshd International Film Festival was staged simultaneously in Tehran and the city of Bandarabbas, the center of Hormozgan Province, southern Iran. From 1993 up until 2001, the Festival was staged every year, simultaneously in Tehran and other provinces of Iran. Since 2001, Tehran is the only host of Roshd International Film Festival and the Provincial Roshd Film Festivals have being staged periodically but not simultaneously in other provinces.
The 39th Roshd International Film Festival will be staged from October 30 to November 6, Tehran, Iran. The films will be accepted in six groups: 1. scientific short and feature films, 2. short and long documentaries, 3. short and feature animations, 4. Pedagogical fiction short films for children, teenagers, parents and teachers, 5. Pedagogical long feature films for children, teenagers, parents and teachers, and 6. Video clips.
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
. It is centered around the films with educational and pedagogical themes and is staged every year by the Supplying Educational Media Center, a sub-branch of the Ministry of Education of the I.R.Iran. The Festival seeks the main objectives of identifying and selecting the best educational and pedagogical films in order to introduce them to the educational systems.
History
Roshd International Film Festival was first staged in 1963 by the Bureau of Audio-visual Activities of the Ministry of Education of Iran. The official name of this festival was first "the International Educational Film Festival"; and the Persian word "jashnvâre", meaning "something like a feast", was coined and used first in Persian to call this kind of event and eventually this word became the standard Persian translation of the word "festival".Having not been held for a few years, the 15th International Educational Film Festival was the first International Educational Film Festival to be staged after the Islamic Revolution in Iran in May 1985. It was held at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and 21 countries from all over the world participated in it.
From the 20th festival on, the official name of the festival turned into its current name, i.e. "Roshd International Educational Film Festival". For the first time in 1993, Roshd International Film Festival was staged simultaneously in Tehran and the city of Bandarabbas, the center of Hormozgan Province, southern Iran. From 1993 up until 2001, the Festival was staged every year, simultaneously in Tehran and other provinces of Iran. Since 2001, Tehran is the only host of Roshd International Film Festival and the Provincial Roshd Film Festivals have being staged periodically but not simultaneously in other provinces.
Themes and subjects
During 38 times of being staged, Roshd International Film Festival has been seeking the general themes of "Knowledge, Sciences and New Technology in the Educational Systems", "Islamic Knowledge and Culture", "Cultures of the Nations around the World", "Education and Training", "Exceptional Children", "Physical Education", and "Teaching Life Skills". Every year, depending on the significant current national and international issues, some additional themes are added to the main subjects of the festival.Objectives
The main objectives of Roshd International Film festival are as follows: Identifying, choosing, and introducing the best educational and pedagogical films in order to encourage the Iranian and foreign film makers who are active in the field of educational films and promote artistic and cultural interactions among them. By triggering intercommunication among the educational film makers, Roshd Film Festival seeks to improve the quality and quantity of the educational films produced in the I.R.Iran. One of the achievements brought about by these objectives is over 3000 minutes of educational film which is currently kept in the archive of Roshd International Film Festival.The 39th Roshd International Film Festival will be staged from October 30 to November 6, Tehran, Iran. The films will be accepted in six groups: 1. scientific short and feature films, 2. short and long documentaries, 3. short and feature animations, 4. Pedagogical fiction short films for children, teenagers, parents and teachers, 5. Pedagogical long feature films for children, teenagers, parents and teachers, and 6. Video clips.