The fourth edition of the Resistance Film Festival was less delayed than its previous edition. It was held in 1992, two years after the third season of Resistance, and was returned to its original time, namely September and October.
In this edition, “Ramin Ahmadi” was elected as the festival’s secretary, and another section was added to the festival’s sections, called the “Video Cinema” section, which we will discuss below.
The fourth season of the festival hosted 42 works in four sections: “Cinema”, “Video Cinema”, “Short Story”, and “Documentary”, which we will explain in the following:
*Participating Works
Cinema (Feature-Fiction):
۱- Fire in the Threshing Floor / Director: Saeed Hajimiri
Story Summary: Talib, the lord of the village of Malikiya, paves the way for the Iraqi army to enter this village. Aunt Tooba, who has learned of this, comes to him from Ahvaz to take away Rahman (her nephew), who is also the shepherd of Talib’s buffaloes. Rahman and Talib are captured by the Iraqis and…
۲- Explosion in the Operating Room / Rahim Rahimipour
Synopsis: Abdul Ali Safari, a volunteer Basij from Behshahr, Mazandaran, is sent to the fronts of the battle of truth against falsehood in the south of the country. Once, when he returned from leave and was greeting his friends, doctors in one of the hospitals had formed a council to operate on Abdol Ali Safari’s leg and…
۳-Ovinar/Shahram Asadi
Summary: Tiway Bashir, an old mule driver who is familiar with untraveled and hidden roads, is this time hired by a goldsmith who has been blinded by a chemical bombardment. The goldsmith is worried about what he has with him and also because of his lack of confidence in the mule driver, and this worry increases when a number of other injured people join them and…
۴-Flight at Last/Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour
Summary: After a siege is broken on the “Mohammad” front, he is wounded and transferred to Tehran. He and his family have been unaware of the fate of his younger brother, “Mahdi,” who was surrounded by people for some time, and…
۵-Putin / Abdullah Bakideh
Summary: On the eve of the liberation of Khorramshahr, while the city is in the hands of enemy forces, several Basij are being held captive by Iraqi forces. It is impossible for them to escape. But with the arrival of a new Basij who is martyred after giving them a message, and…
۶-You Who Didn’t Know Me / Mohammad Ibrahim Soltanifar
Summary: This film is episodic and has several stories within one film. (First story): Ahmad and Mohammad are twin brothers who were born an hour apart from each other. They go to the front together and… (Second story): The little daughter of the commander of the first episode, “Mousavi”, runs into the street early in the morning, excited and restless, waiting for her father to return from the front. She waits for her father with her eyes and… (Third story): A Basiji fighter named Saeed is wounded and unconscious while repelling an enemy attack and…
۷-Glass Eye/ Hossein Ghasemi Jamei
Summary: Qasem, a Basiji propagandist, goes to the front line. After talking to the battalion commander, he realizes the chaotic situation of the siege and…
۸-In the Alleys of Love/ Khosrow Sinai
Summary: A twenty-something young man who emigrated from Abadan with his family at the beginning of the war, returned to Abadan with his father after the war ended, and after seeing the city and their house destroyed, he hesitates to return to his city for sure and…
۹-In Slaughterhouse of Love / Kamal Tabrizi
Summary: “Mahmoud Ayat” participates in a large-scale attack against the enemy as the commander of an operational team. All the evidence indicates that he will be martyred and…
۱۰-Operation Kirkuk / Jamal Shorjeh
Summary: The film is a reconstruction of one of the real overseas operations carried out by the heroes of the Ramadan base called (Fatah One) with the aim of destroying and disabling the oil facilities of the city of Kirkuk, Iraq.
۱۱-Wasl Nikan / Ebrahim Hatamikia
Summary: Amir’s wedding with Maryam is scheduled to take place. The city is deserted due to enemy missile attacks. Amir, who is responsible for neutralizing the missiles that did not work, insists that the wedding ceremony be held earlier. But everyone is against it because…
۱۲-Hour of Fire / Azizullah Hamidnejad
Summary: Amir’s wedding with Maryam is scheduled to take place. The city is deserted due to enemy missile attacks. Amir, who is responsible for neutralizing the failed missiles, insists that the wedding ceremony be held early. But everyone is against it because…
Video Cinema:
۱-Beyond the Embankment/Hassan Sajidi
Summary: Reza, an Iranian fighter, is injured during reconnaissance by an Iraqi soldier who has come to the area on a motorbike. The Iraqi takes Reza on his motorbike to the Iraqi forces, who are injured by Iranian artillery fire. Reza escapes on an Iraqi motorbike and…
۲-That Night/Ali Bahadur
Summary: Qasem is a Basiji. While helping his friend distribute the book Dua-e-Kumayl, he encounters a misunderstanding with someone who does not look like a warrior and…
۳- Zarhaei tha Didar/Amir Erfanian
Summary: This film depicts the process of the liberation of Mohammad Reza Yazdi Panah from the freedmen of the glorious Islamic homeland, who was considered missing during the captivity, from the time of his release to his arrival at his home in Kashmir
۴-Tafoush/Morteza Shabani
Summary: A group of IRGC and Basij brothers who participated in the preliminary Operation Wal-Fajr have come to the Fakeh region to find the holy bodies of martyrs who are buried in this area and…
۵-Hadith of Blossoming/Ali Reza Nouraei
Summary: A medical student who does not want to stay at the front meets a martyr’s family by chance, and then a relationship begins. Emotionally, it takes shape and
۶- The Story of War/ Mohammad Uzi
Summary: The story is told from the perspective of a boy who uses information he has heard from his father about the events and stories of war
۷- Turbulence for the General/ Seyyed Jalal Hosseini Yousefi
Summary: The story is turbulent
