The four-day festival which is sponsored by the Public Relations Office of the Oil Ministry, aims to represent Iranian and foreign documentary and feature-length movies with the central theme of oil and related objects, said festival's director Akbar Ne'matollahi.
The event will encourage filmmakers to produce films with the same subject which helps to develop the oil industry and to pave for more artistic and cultural exchanges among the internationally-recongized filmmakers, he added.
"The festival is halved into the Competition and Perspective Sections," said Ne'matollahi, "