TEHRAN, Oct. 08 (MNA) – Movie theaters in six cities in Iran, including Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan, will lend their silver screens to some European films for a whole week starting from October 12.

The European Film Week will be held from 12-19 October in movie theaters in Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz, Kerman and Babol.

The program includes 15 films from 15 European countries including Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Notable among the films are 'Afterimage' by Andrzej Wajda (Poland), 'The Young Karl Marx' by Raoul Peck (Germany), 'The Other Side of Hope' by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland), and 'The Day Will Come' by Jesper Westerlin Nielsen (Denmark).

The program will open on Friday at Iranian Artists Forum in downtown Tehran. Representative of the European Union in Iran, a number of foreign ambassadors, cultural attaches, artists, and journalists will be present at the opening.

The full list of movies in the screening program is available here

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