TEHRAN-- Iranian director Narges Abyar has actually been selected for the jury of the 25th Religion Today Film Festival, which opens in 5 Italian cities on Wednesday.Director of well-known dramas Track 143 , Breath and When the Moon Was Full , Abyar is currently in Tatarstan, a semi-autonomous area in southwest Russia, to accompany the jury of the 18th edition of the Kazan International Muslim Film Festival.She has actually been honored by several global celebrations and cultural centers.Earlier in March, she was honored with the Director Achievement Award at the International Women Filmmakers Festival 2022 in Izmir, Turkey.In 2020, she got the HUM Women Leaders Award at the Governors House in the Pakistani city of Karachi.Her 2019 drama When the Moon Was Full received the audience award at the 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.The Religion Today jury also has Mamta Shaha, a board-certified pediatrician and an assistant teacher of pediatrics at New York University.
She is likewise a board-certified eye doctor from Bombay University.Christian Kazadi Lupemba, the chairperson of Religions for Peaces Interfaith Youth Network of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a professor of mathematics, will join the jury.Eda Molla Chousein, the Youth Program Coordinator of the National Interfaith Youth Network and Religions for Peace UK, is likewise a member of the panel.The Iranian films The Dream of a Horse , Surviving Fortress , 19 , The Peach , Cylinder and Graveyard will complete in different sections of the festival, which will occur in Trento, Bolzano, Rome, Venice and Marina di Camerota.
Religion Today has actually been the primary worldwide and itinerant film festival committed to movie theater and faiths for a culture of peace and dialogue between faiths, cultures, individuals and individuals, the organizers have said.Elaheh Nobakht, the producer of the acclaimed Iranian documentary Beloved , belonged to the jury of the 2021 Religion Today Film Festival.Photo: Iranian director Narges Abyar in an undated photo.MMS/ YAW