The cause of the stagnation of children's cinema is its custodians

Behrouz Gharibpour stated about his experiences in children and young people cinema: After “The Runner”, I experienced another path of children and young people cinema.

According to Soureh Cinema, Behrouz Gharibpour, writer and director of children and young people cinema, said about his activity experiences in this field: Before writing the screenplay of “The Runner“, I had various ideas for children and young people cinema, but when I wrote “The Runner“, I also experienced another path.

He added: Subsequently, I wrote numerous screenplays about children and young people, one of which was the screenplay for “Duck-Lee“, which the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults refused to invest in, and finally after twenty-five years of waiting, I made it last year.

Gharibpour noted: Similarly, I also made “Detective 2” and “Lazy Champion“, the second of which was only commended because it was made for children, not critics. A critic compared it to the late Ali Hatami’s film “Hassan Kachal” and concluded that I had not been able to make a film like his. Whereas if he had paid attention, he would have understood that the audience of “Hassan Kachal” is by no means children. Nonetheless, the screenplay of “Lazy Champion” was recognized as one of the top children and young people written works in the year 2000.

In response to what factors he evaluates as the cause of the relative stagnation of children and young people cinema after the golden age of the 60s and 70s, he stated: The custodian of the International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults was initially Kanoun, but after the revolution, the Farabi Cinema Foundation took charge of holding this festival.