Esmaili: Export Iranian Islamic culture

According to Fars news agency, Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, said at the closing ceremony of the 39th Tehran International Short Film Festival: I thank all those involved in organizing this festival and all the filmmakers who came. We had a lot of applicants in the international section and this festival was well organized. This festival is actually the beginning of the series of festivals in the field of culture and art of our country. We have entered the season of festivals and the starting point was this Tehran festival. This is a very good event to start the festivals. The passion that is clearly visible in this final ceremony is very good. In the Ministry of Guidance, we have defined our main program as cultural development and education in all parts of the country.

Esmaili continued: The Iranian Youth Cinema Association is one of our most important institutions. Many of our leading artists are the product of young cinema education. For this reason, we defined the expansion of youth cinema as one of the main missions of the cinema organization. In the Supreme Council of Cinema, whose first meeting was held after 12 years, one of the most important decisions was the equipping and development of the association’s offices; We also predicted a good credit for this purpose and it was approved so that we have a serious foundation to strengthen this matter. This is the most important tool for the development of cultural justice.

He further stated: Wherever we have had an office, we have seen its results. I jokingly told my friends in the organization and community that if your facilities don’t allow it, open an office independently and do it floating. If the facilities allow, we will set up an office for each city, and if the facilities do not allow, we will have the most productivity from the offices. For some time now, we have set up a camp for the elimination of deprivation in the field of culture and art in the ministry, and in the first step, we have trained more than 40,000 students. I told my friends not to be satisfied with this and to create employment space for people and give them a school license and develop the issue of education. We have the same goal in the international sector. One of our main topics is the expansion of culture and art diplomacy.

The Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance said: In these few months, I hosted more than 7 Ministers of Culture from different countries. We defined several detailed programs with the presence of our own artists in other countries, we had a cultural week in Kazakhstan and Syria. We have the upper hand in cultural productions and if the atmosphere is favorable, this brilliance of children is not limited to Iran. We also plan to have cultural exchanges in Russia. In any case, the animation “Dolphin Boy” had a good sale in Russia, which shows our talents. Thanks to the revolution, our cinema is experiencing a period of high brilliance; Because we have deep and meaningful cinema; A movie that heralds social values ​​and heralds our brilliant culture. We must strengthen this cinema.

In the end, Esmaili said: We will do our best to use the very good capacity that the government has created in regional interactions. For example, we will do this in the Shanghai Treaty. We have signed good cultural agreements with other countries and we continue to benefit from their results. In this Shanghai agreement, there are many capacities for our relations. We have to find the markets of the world so that we can export Iranian Islamic culture. Along with that, the field of cultural economy will also be strengthened, and I thank all the organizers who made an effort, the municipality, radio and television, and all the companions of the Tehran Short Film Festival.

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