جشنواره فجر
Jashnvareh-ye Fajr is Iran’s state-run national film festival, held annually since 1982 around the anniversary of the 1979 revolution.
Glossary
جشنواره
jashnvareh is the Persian word for a festival, a celebration in the form of a competition, used for film, music, theater, and cultural events.
سینماگر
cinema-gar is the Persian word for a filmmaker in the broad sense, the auteur whose identity is cinema itself, distinct from a working director.
اکران شدن
ekran shodan is the compound verb meaning to be released in theaters, built from the French loan ekran plus the Persian light verb shodan.
اکران
ekran is the Persian word for a film’s theatrical release, a French loan from ecran (screen), the word that says a film is in cinemas now.
نمایش
namayesh is the broad Persian word for a show or performance, covering theater, screenings, exhibitions, anything publicly displayed.
تدوینگر
tadvin-gar is the Persian word for a film editor, the person who sits in the cutting room and assembles the finished film shot by shot.
تدوین
tadvin is the Persian word for film editing, the post-production craft of arranging shots, an Arabic root meaning to compile or arrange.
فیلمبردار
film-bardar is the Persian word for cinematographer, literally film-carrier, the eye behind the camera in Iran’s image-driven cinema.
تهیهکننده
Tahyye-konande is the Persian word for film producer, the financial and logistical lead behind the camera, the role that gets a film made.