LONDON -- The annual London Film Festival opened Wednesday in the British capital with a record six Iranian features in its program.

The non-competitive festival, in its 46th year, runs until November 21 and is particularly noted for its diverse range of contemporary world cinema. The screenings were selected from over 2,000 feature films and hundreds of shorts, IRNA reported.

The Iranian films include A House on Water, directed by Bahman Farmanara, who made a dramatic comeback after a twenty-year break to win three best film award at this year Fajr Festival in Tehran with Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine.

Also being screened is I Taraneh, Am 15, the winner of the best actress and script awards at Fajr. The film is the seventh feature by Rassoul Sadr Ameli, who also picked up the best director award.

Medium of Love, a first documentary by Elli Safari, and Heaven's Path directed by Mahmoud Behrazania, are also being screened as a double-bill from Iran.

Other films include Bahman Qobadi's Songs of My Motherland and Bemani, a semi-fictional, semi-documentary movie, directed by Dariush Mehrjuei.

The Iranian influence at the London Festival is added to by the screening of When Mariam Spoke Out, a first feature by Lebanese director Assad Fouladkar, who is of Iranian origins.