Animation has been contributed to the dialogue among mankind from the very beginning, a contribution of a different nature that is able to communicate better when it has less and less speech. It is a long time that through animation as a lingua franca, intellectuals of different cultural backgrounds have spoken out the joys and greives common to mankind. The constituent elements of this lingua franca are not words but images which the inthusiasm of the filmmaker are translated to.
Tehran 2001 International Animation Festival holds while the world is looking forward to more convergence and understanding. This goal is probable to be achieved through dialogue.
Dialogue can be a way and may be the only way out the conflicts of modern time in which animation has been a firm believer.