Studying the films of the Holy Defense period gives us a lot of information about the discursive and non-discursive position of the university institution in this period. The subject of the present research is the study of how the university was discursively presented in the cinema of the Holy Defense period. The theoretical basis of the work has been Foucault's discourse analysis.

Very few films during the Holy Defense period have depicted the subject and issues of the university. The three films "The Fifth Rider of Destiny", "The Little Bird of Happiness" and "In Search of a Hero" are among the few films that depict university subjects and have been selected for study in this research using a purposeful sampling method. The method of studying these films has been the discourse analysis of the text using the theoretical approach and discourse method of Michel Foucault.

The findings of the study indicate that the Iranian cinema community adopted a strategy of silence regarding university issues during this period. The films even refrain from showing university spaces such as classrooms and show utmost restraint in producing images and content in this regard. In the films under study, we witness the formation of an ideological discursive order about the university institution. The film "The Fifth Rider of Destiny" introduces medical science as the pinnacle of sciences, and of course, the type of medicine that serves the goals of the revolution. In the film "The Little Bird of Happiness", an attempt is made to present psychological knowledge as an essential subject to society, and in the film "In Search of a Hero", the university system is placed on the front line of war and criticized.

With this in mind, the cinema of the Holy Period, in line with the political conditions prevailing in that period, has taken a position on the university and has preferred to step within the circle and discursive order prevailing in society and politics of that period.