TEHRAN – Three Iranian animated films will be screened at the 17th World Festival of Animated Films Zagreb 2006, which is to be held from June 12 to 17 in the Croatian capital, the Public Relations Office of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IDCYA) announced on Tuesday.

The Iranian film “Farmer and Cow” directed by Fatima Gudarzi along with 68 other films from Britain, the United States, Japan, Russia, and 23 other countries will be shown in the Grand Competition section of the event.

Director Ravanbakhsh Sadeqi’s “Crow” will be screened in the New Media Competition section and Ali-Asghar Rasuli’s “Mahbubeh” will be screened in the non-competition section.

The World Festival of Animated Films in Zagreb, also known as Animafest, is a special international biennial competition festival for animation films.

Animafest’s supreme corporate body is the Festival Council, appointed for a four-year period by the Zagreb City Government.

Animafest is financially supported by the Ministry for Culture of the Republic of Croatia and by the Office for Culture of the City of Zagreb, and it is also fully recognized by ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film D’Animation).