INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
