A four-day Iranian film festival aimed at promoting the country’s culture kicked off in Kuwait on Sunday, the Gulf country’s official news agency (KUNA) reported.

The Japanese capital came out well ahead of next-placed Singapore in the survey, which measured how outsiders perceive Asia’s cities in terms of soft power traits such as the quality of food, shopping, music scene, design and architecture, and whether they are known to be influential centres for media, technology, academia and politics.