TEHRAN-- Director Puran Derakhshandeh and her fellow Iranian film marketing supervisor Elaheh Tahai have actually been chosen as members of the juries for different classifications at the 21st Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh.Derakhshandeh will sign up with the jury for the Asian Film Competition, which will be led by American filmmaker Jon Jost.The London-based Bangladeshi director and producer Mostafa Kamal and Armenian filmmaker Arsen Arakelyan are other members of the jury.Derakhshandeh is a movie directing graduate from the Advanced School of Television and Cinema in Tehran.

She began her expert career by making documentary films for IRIB channels in Kermanshah and Tehran.She has directed lots of movies, including Hush! Ladies Dont Scream , Under the Smokey Roof , Eternal Children and Serial Dream , which have actually been awarded at a number of global festivals.The 2020 Dhaka International Film Festival held a retrospective of Derakhshandeh.Tahai has been chosen for the Interfaith Jury for the Spiritual Films Section.

She is the worldwide business and marketing manager of the Sureh Cinema Organization in Tehran.The jury likewise consists of Greek director Alexandros Kostopoulos, Bangladeshi therapy psychologist Lipy Gloria Rozario and Polish festival organizer Maciej Rucinski.Over a dozen of Iranian motion pictures will be evaluated at the 21st Dhaka International Film Festival, which will take place in the Bangladeshi capital from January 14 to 22.

Six movies, consisting of Forbidden Womanhood by Maryam Zahirimehr and The Last Snow by Amir-Hossein Asgari, will be showcased in the Asian Film Competition.

No Prior Appointment by Behruz Shoeibi, Motherless by Morteza Fatemi, The Apple Day by Mahmud Ghaffari and Life - & Life by Ali Qavitan will also complete in this category.

Surviving Fortress by Iranian director Farshad Fadaian will be completing in the Spiritual Film section.The Cinema of the World area will also screen eight films by Iranian filmmakers.Among the movies are The Opposition Amir-Abbas Rabiei, Sniper by Ali Ghaffari and Song of the Wind by Sudabeh Beizai.This area also includes With the Wind by Mohammad Tabarsa, A Childless Village by Reza Jamali, Wind of Change by Abbas Rafei, The Wind That Shakes the Sugar Canes Ebrahim Ashrafpur and Mamma Makhmal by Amir-Hossein Khalilzadeh.Photo: A mix photo reveals Iranian cineastes Puran Derakhshandeh and Elaheh Tahai.MMS/ YAW