Iran filmmaker to judge in Switzerland

Iranian filmmaker Majid Movasseqi has been picked as a member of the jury panel at the Visions du Reel International Film Festival in Switzerland.

The organizers announced that he will judge the selected movies to be screened at the Interreligious Section of the festival along with three other filmmakers and scholars.

The other members of the jury are journalist Noemi Gradwohl, president associate professor of Religious Studies and Media Marie-Therese Mader, and writer and filmmaker Wilfried Meichtry, all from Switzerland.

A number of movies on religious topics will compete at the section.

Movasseqi was also selected as a member of the jury for the Interreligious Section of the 2018 edition of the Visions du Reel International Film Festival.

He has also judged movies at the DOK Leipzig, a German festival for documentary and animated films, in 2019 and 2020.

The 22nd Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, also selected Movasseqi as a jury member in 2020.

Over nine days, the Visions du Reel International Film Festival turns Nyon into a focal point at which several generations of filmmakers and artists from all over the world find a loyal audience on a voyage of discovery.

Recognized globally as one of the major festivals dedicated to non-fiction filmmaking, it presents a majority of films as world or international premieres, and constitutes an essential platform for creation for the thousands of film professionals who meet there every year.

The 2021 edition of the Visions du Reel International Film Festival will be held in the Swiss city of Nyon on April 15-25.

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