TEHRAN - The Haqiqat Film Festival will be held in fall in Yazd. Mr. Kazimini, the director of the Yazd Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance said, "This festival was scheduled to be held in spring. But the schedule has been changed for two reasons: the festival became international and some structural changes were made by the deputy director of the Yazd Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance in charge of cinematic affairs."

According to Kazimini, the festival will mainly focus on religious themes. The Haqiqat Film Festival is being held with the cooperation of the Farabi Cinema Foundation. Both Iranian and foreign short and feature films which have religious themes will be screened at the festival.

Excerpts From Motahhari's Books:

Writings & Speeches That Inspire Nations

In Motahhari's writings and speeches, materialism, idealism and realism are discussed and compared and contrasted with each other. He tried to logically prove the conclusion that the correct view is realism, which he believed is the view of Islam.

"Classless Islamic society means a society without discrimination, deprivation, or false gods and with justice and without oppression. It is not an indifferent society, since remaining indifferent is a form of oppression and injustice in itself. There is a distinction which exists between discrimination and differences, just as differences exist in the creation of the world. Such differences have created beauty, variety, progress and perfection, but discrimination does not exist in them.

"The Islamic utopia is a place without discrimination and not one without differences. Islamic society is the society of equality and brotherhood."

"... An Islamic society is a natural society and not a discriminating one and not a society based on negative equality. You will work according to your talent and you will receive according to your work."

Motahhari was a staunch supporter of freedom of expression and freedom of thought. He understood very well that the only way to safeguard Islam is through the power of science and freedom of expression of the opposition.

In his speech delivered at the Faculty of Theology in February 1979, he said, "Any school of thought believing in its ideology should inevitably support freedom of expression and thought. On the contrary, any school of thought which does not have faith in its ideology blocks the way of freedom of thinking and expression. Such schools seek to keep the people within a limited intellectual framework and prevent the growth of their thoughts."

"... I hereby announce that in the Islamic Republic, there will be no limit upon thoughts and there will be no such thing as channelization of thought. Of course, all should be free to present the end result of their thoughts and thinking. I should say here that this is totally different from devising or planning conspiracies. Nobody has the right nor are they allowed to plan conspiracies, but the presentation of genuine thoughts should be free.

"... I hereby announce to all non-Muslim friends that thinking is free from the point of view of Islam. You are free to think any way you wish and to express it and present it in your own thought. You are free to write down your thoughts and nobody will prevent you from doing this..."

"... Islam has been able to continue its existence due to this liberty. At the advent of Islam if people who stated that they did not believe in God were killed or beaten, nothing such as Islam would have existed today. Islam flourished because it faced the various thoughts with courage and straightforwardness."