Bahareh Yeganeh, Maneli Aqakhan, Jaafar Goudarzi and Moqareh Abed are UNICEF members who will participate in the festival to judge the works.
Some various cinema experts and well-known artists are also scheduled to join the UNICEF members on jury panel at the 26th edition of the International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
Vahid Nikkhah-Azad, Rahbar Qanbari, Nasser Refaie and Sirous Hassanpour are the children filmmakers who have been selected to take part at this year’s competition section of the festival.
The festival aims to connect children and adults, and promote world peace, the secretary of the festival, Ja'far Goudarzi said, adding that children’s film festivals can be one of the many ways to create a safe world where kids are not used for crime or sacrificed for greed.
Works from 34 countries including 11 countries from Asia, 18 from Europe and three from the United States will be presented at this year’s festival.
Iran’s 2011 International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults screened 67 films from 24 countries along with numerous Iranian productions in the competition and noncompetition sections.
Indonesia, Croatia, Belgium, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada and Italy were among the countries sending their productions to the 25th edition of the annual festival.
The 26th edition of its International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults is to be held in the historical city of Isfahan from October 8 to 12, 2012.
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