Bengali director Sandip Ray's film "After Night Dawn" will be one of the 13 movies competing at the 24th Fajr International Film Festival here Jan 20-30, according to Iran's Mehr news agency.

The festival has announced the film will be screened in its Asia competition section. The best film, director and screenplay of this section will each be awarded a Crystal Simorgh.

Sandip is renowned film director Satyajit Ray's son.

The other foreign films include "The Brotherhood of War" by Je-gyu Kang, "Daddy Long Legs" by Gong Jeong-shik from South Korea, "Of Love and Eggs" by Garin Nugroho from Indonesia, Hiner Saleem's "Kilometer Zero" - a joint production of Iraq, Finland and France.

There's also "Shanghai Dreams" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai from China, and "Perhaps He Is" by Nobuhiko Hosaka and "The Village Album" by Mitsuhiro Mihara from Japan.

Amir Esfandiari, the managing director of the international department of the Farabi Cinematic Foundation, and other cinematic figures such as Jamal Omid, Manuchehr Shahsavari, Mohsen Hashemi and Majid Shah-Hosseini are members of the selection board for the international section.