TEHRAN- The 36th edition of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth will be inaugurated in the central city of Isfahan on October 5. 

This year, conditions have been set in place for young filmmakers to participate in the festival and have their works compete with other productions, ISNA quoted the secretary of the festival as saying on Wednesday. 

The reality is that despite all the positive steps taken for children's and youth cinema in previous years, this cinema is extremely weak and in dire need of a strategic plan for support, Majid Zeinolabedin added. 

"Appropriate cultural funds should be allocated for this cinema."

For such festival film viewing for families alongside children and youth attending the festival should be facilitated, he explained. 

Moreover, incentive mechanisms should be established to support selected Iranian films at the stage of public screening, he mentioned. 

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