The Secretary of the Headquarters for Promoting Virtue in the Fajr Film Festival: We included a section for promoting virtue.
Taheri, the Secretary of the Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, said Westerners claim cinema has taken the place of the church. In Iran, we believe cinema stands alongside the mosque. Religious cinema is not limited to prayer and supplication.
In all matters, public organizations can get involved. For the first time, we included a section for promoting virtue in the Fajr Film Festival and awarded the National Will Prize. It occurred to us to implement the concepts of promoting virtue in society. Our proposal was a simple festival, and now with the first step, we have considered an international perspective to bring the concept into the realm of art.