Hawzah News Agency –In collaboration with the Iranian Cultural Mission in Belgrade, the 20th Iranian Film Festival will be held from February 4 to 9 in the Great Hall of the Museum and the Kinotka Movie Center.

According to the Public Relations department of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), Mohammad Taghi Bakhtiari, the head of the Cultural Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Belgrade, met with Marian Vojovic, director of the Jugoslovenska Kinoteka Museum and Movie Center.

While appreciating the constructive cooperation of the Kinotka Museum and Cinema Complex over the past two decades and the successful holding of 19 Iranian Film Week seasons in Serbia, Bakhtiari said in the opening ceremony the directors and other workers of this cultural center who have participated in holding Iranian Film Weeks for the past two decades will be honored.

He added for this year's festival, six feature films from the latest productions of Iranian cinema on various social, cultural and semantic topics have been selected, which will be shown for a week simultaneously with the 43rd anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran with Serbian subtitles." .

Expressing satisfaction with the good cooperation between the two sides over the past two decades, the Jugoslovenska Kinoteka Museum and Movie Center, Marian Vojovic said the two collections of Kinotka Cinema and the Iranian Cultural Mission established good cooperation twenty-two years ago, which has continued until now and has always satisfied both parties and cinema enthusiasts.

The director of the Kinotka Museum and Cinema Collection added the Serbian people are well acquainted with Iranian films and directors, and there is a great desire to see the works of Iranian cinema in Serbia."

Welcoming the presence of one or more actors of Iranian cinema in this festival, he said this event will make the festival richer and the media more willing to cover the program.

Bakhtiari spoke with Vlada Sava, Cardinal of the Serbian Cathedral, about the planned visit of the 46th Archbishop of Serbia, Patriarch Porphyry, to Iran to attend the "Dialogue between Islam and Christianity" summit next spring.