Mehdi Tohidpour

Executive Director of the 6th Iran International Green Film Festival

Managing Director and Founder of the Green Civilization NGO of Artists Protecting the Environment Artists are the most sensitive members of the society. Hardships of life, affects their souls faster and deeper than others. They use their deep understanding of life issues, to create artworks that are instructive and effective reflections of existing problems. Nowadays, destruction of the environment is the most important crisis humans deal with. The unsustainable development of human societies, along with their drastic population growth, has endangered the life of the planet’s living beings. Man knows himself to be the highest creature, but in fact, he is destroying the very environment that is the source of life, this greatest miracle. Artists know the value of the clearness of air, purity of water, cleanness of earth and the health and well-being of plants, animals and humans better than anyone. The Iran International Green Film Festival is an opportunity for all members of the society to hear and fathom the warnings of artists and environmental experts with their hearts and souls; an occasion for all of us to watch and listen and learn, so that we work together hand in hand and let life, with all its beauty, remain a sustainable bliss for all living forms on Earth.