TEHRAN -- The jury members for the International Competition section of the International ISAAR Festival (film and screenplay) have been announced.
The first edition of the event has picked Azzam Saleh (Iraqi filmmaker), Basil Al-Khatib (Syrian film director), Hajji Mehmedović (Bosnian filmmaker), IRIB Deputy Director Mohsen Bormahani and Muhammad-Reza Eslamlou (Iranian filmmaker) as its jury members.
More than 1,200 films and screenplays have been submitted to the secretariat of the festival. Some 220 of the works are screenplays while the remaining are short films, video clips, animations, dramas and documentaries.
Films from Lebanon, the US, Yemen, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Algeria, France, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Italy, Syria, Malaysia, Spain and Iran are on screen at the festival.
Mashhad in northeast of Iran is hosting the ISAAR Festival, slated for May 19-24.