Iran’s Iman Behrouzi picked for MDOC festival jury

Iranian director Iman Behrouzi has been named among jurors at the MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival in Portugal.

Behrouzi will serve on the jury panel at 6th edition of the Portuguese festival which is set to kick off next month.

He has made several documentaries, including ‘A Movie for You’ and ‘Love in Close-up’.

Behrouzi’s documentaries have participated at several prestigious international film festivals around the globe.

His 'True Love' was announced as the best documentary at the 2018 International Short Film Festival "START" in Azerbaijan.

The MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival aims to “promote and disclose social and ethnographic cinema, reflecting with the films about identity, memory and border and to contribute for an audiovisual archive about the region,” the event’s website reads.

The 6th edition of the MDOC will take place in Melgaço on July 29-August 4, 2019.

SQ/MG