1-Promotion of culture and increasing public awareness on environmental conservation 2-To promote closer bonds between artists and society on environmental protection subjects 3-To encourage higher quality of creative artistic and cinematic artworks on environmental concerns

1-To encourage public commitment to protect nature and environment through cinema and visual arts 2-To draw the attention of national and international authorities to the necessity of protecting the environment 3-To encourage and reward public, celebrities’ and authorities’ participation in protecting the environment

The festival generally divides into two National and International sections. International competition includes competitive and non-competitive sections: Competitive International Competition of Motion Pictures, Documentary Movies and Animations: – Long Motion Pictures (More than 50 minutes) – Short Motion Pictures (Less than 30 minutes) – Long Documentary movies (More than 30 minutes) – Short Documentary movies (Less than 30 minutes) – Animations Non Competitive Non-competitive section includes Workshops, conferences, Seminars and speeches related to festival: 1-“Investigating impacts of visual arts on cultural and educational structures of environmental protection matters and the role of NGOs” workshop 2- “Renewal and Recycled energies” workshops 3- Educational workshops on “Protecting the environment at home, work, school, public locations and nature” 4- “Artworks’ Review and Criticism” workshops 5- Panel discussions with leading national and international filmmakers 6- Artwork review of one selected national and one selected international filmmaker and rewarding their achievements 7- Reward an individual or NGO with remarkable activities in environmental protection 8-Reward three selected green manufacturing or service companies and screen short introductions of their green activities in the festival 9- Reward three active artists in environmental protection acts