MOSCOW, April 2. / TASS /. Eleven feature films from Russia, Germany, Serbia, Romania, Iran, and other countries will vie for the top prize at the 46th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), and this list may grow.

In total, the MIFF will feature over 230 films, members of the festival's selection committee announced at a press conference.

"This year we have over 230 films in competitive and non-competitive programs, which is approximately 20% more than last year. With the BRICS film festival running at the same time as the MIFF, there will be even more films - 260 feature films, documentaries, animated, short films, and multi-part works of art," said head of the selection committee Ivan Kudryavtsev.

Committee member Yevgenia Tirdatova announced the selections for the main prize at the MIFF. Russia will be represented by Ivan Sosnin's film "The Alien." The jury deciding on the top award, chaired by Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson will be considering the films "21 Rubies" by Ciprian Megi (Romania), "Everything Will Be Revealed" by Peter Keglevich (Austria), "Surviving in Mo..." by Grigore Bechet (Moldova, Russia, Romania), "Breath of Cold" by Nahid Azizi Sedigh (Iran), "The Forest King" by Goran Radovanovic (Serbia), "Between Dog and Wolf" by Murat Duzgunoglu (Turkey), "Nirvana" by Asif Islam (Bangladesh), and "Shame" by Miguel Salgado (Mexico). Germany has submitted two films to the MIFF - "Martin Reads the Quran" directed by Yuri Saule and "Schlimazel" by Silke Enders.

MIFF will take place in Moscow from April 19 to 26. The Moscow Film Festival was founded in 1935, and in 1995 it was announced that the film festival would become an annual event, although it was not held in 1996 and 1998. Since 1999, the MIFF has been held every year. The president of the film festival is director Nikita Mikhalkov. TASS is the information partner of the MIFF.