TEHRAN – Some 30 countries are taking part at the First International ISAAR Festival of films and screenplays which opened in the holy city of Mashhad on Friday.
As many as 1,270 works of art have been submitted to the secretariate of the festival, the head of the Martyrs Foundation in Khorasan Razavi said.
Mehdi Hassanzadeh said some 219 of the submitted artworks are screenplays while the rest are short films, video clips, animations, dramas and documentaries.
Films from Lebanon, the U.S., Yemen, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Algeria, France, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Italy, Syria, Malaysia, Spain and Iran are being screened at the festival.
Mashhad is hosting the festival through May 19-24.