Iran holds int'l short film festival


TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The 41st Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) kicked off on Friday in the Iranian capital, the official news agency IRNA reported.

According to IRNA, 107 short works will compete for top awards in the festival's international section.

The submitted works, including 59 fiction films, 21 animated movies, 18 documentaries, and nine experimental films, were from India, China, Poland, the United States, Egypt, Greece, France, Palestine, Türkiye, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Australia, Japan, Germany, Italy and Cuba.

Held for consecutively over the past four decades, the TISFF is one of the oldest short film festivals in the region.

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