Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian documentary filmmaker and journalist, Maziar Bahari will present his favorite documentaries in the "Top 10" section of 20th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

Bahari's documentaries have been screened in past editions of IDFA and he has selected Kamran Shirdel's The Night it Rained as one of his top 10.

The film is one of the classic docs in Iranian cinema history and won several awards in international festivals.

Bahari was born in Tehran, Iran. He studied communications at Concordia University in Montreal before making his first film The Voyage of the Saint Louis about the fatal voyage of more than 900 German Jewish refugees in 1939. Bahari has since worked as a filmmaker and journalist.

His films include Paint! No Matter What, Of Shames and Coffins, Football, Iranian Style, And Along Came a Spider, Targets: Reporters in Iraq, and etc.

Since the beginning of the Iraq war, Bahari has reported from Iraq and produced several documentaries about the conflict. He is Newsweek magazine's Iran correspondent.

20th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam which will take place November 22 to December 2, 2007.