I hope FITF to be held every year

Behrouz Gharibpour is an Iranian theatre director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet theatre. He studied theatre at Tehran University and at Dramatic Arts Academy in Rome (Silvio D'Amico). He founded Tehran and Esfahan puppet theatre centers and changed Tehran's slaughterhouse into the greatest Iran's Cultural Centre. He has experienced in writing and directorship in fields such as theatre, puppet theatre, cinema, documentary movies, and T.V.

 

Gharibpour is known for his solid research works on the Iranian puppetry as was commonly practiced during Qajar era. He was the president of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette (International Puppetry Association).

"We cannot read what the directors have in mind for the future of the festivals and basically how they look at the upcoming festivals, but the important thing is that the routine of  festivals is continuing in recent years. This is good news in itself and shows that things will happen as before."

 

"We are confident that this process will continue, the theaters will work and the festival will be held," he said. "God willing, the directors will have an understanding of what the theater community is like in Tehran .And what has improved in other provinces, and interaction with them and the implementation of cultural policies should be done in such a way that the theater people feel relative freedom."