Possibility or Impossibility of Developing a Religious-oriented Cinema according to Mulla Sadra's Philosophy

No doubt, every religion makes use of the methods which conform with its own epistemic tenets in order to establish communication with its audience. The answer to the question whether or not the development of a religious-oreinted cinema is possible is based on the awareness of the nature of cinema and has relation with the epistemic tenets of Islam. Pointing out to the Islamic philosophy and using an analytical-descriptive method, the present paper seeks to investigate the possibility or impossibility of developing a religious-oriented cinema, by reviewing about the basic tenets of Islamic philosophy and philosophy of Islamic art. The research findings show that the realization of a religious-oriented cinema demands mastering the technology of this media and depends on the stages of internal and practical intuitive journey which the film-maker has reached. Secular, religion-oriented and religious cinemas will be expected corresponding to the stages of the dominance of filmmaker’s soul which traverses from vegetable to animal and finally to human stage, respectively, and the kind of city- utopia or otherwise- can prepare the ground for the film-maker to experience something beautiful is the influential factors for the realization of the aforementioned stages of cinema.