The ceremony is held annually on August 6 to commemorate the anniversary of the tragedy of the U.S. atomic attack on the Japanese city.
Filmmakers Kamal Tabrizi and Mohammadreza Kheradmandan, actresses Fatemeh Motamed-Arya and Merila Zarei, documentarian Siavash Sarmadi, writer Habib Ahmadzadeh, and the head of the board of directors at the Tehran Peace Museum, Mohammadreza Sorush, are among the Iranian participants, the Persian service of FNA reported on Saturday.
The Iranian delegation along with thousands of Japanese citizens and foreign diplomats will commemorate the victims of the tragedy.
The 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war is scheduled to be discussed at meetings with the survivors of the attack.
The cineastes will attend the screenings of some Iranian movies in Hiroshima and Tokyo on the sidelines of their visit to Japan.
The films will first be screened in Hiroshima on August 6 and 7. The movies will then be shown in Tokyo on August 8 and 9.
“Mazar-i-Sharif” by Abdolhassan Barzideh, “Muhammad (S), the Messenger of God” by Majid Majidi, “Taj Mahal” by Danesh Eqbashavi and “Lizard” by Kamal Tabrizi are among the movies.
Source: Tehran Times