The 8th edition of the Iranian international festival for documentary films Cinéma Vérité has released the year’s film lineup.
The festival’s organizers have selected seven Iranian films to compete at the International Competition section of the event.
Champion and Robe directed by Arash Lahouti, Atlan directed by Moin Karimeddini, I Wanna Become a King directed by Mehdi Ganji and Monsieur Setboun and Those Past Daysdirected by Mahmoud Karimi are among the films selected for the section.
Nanny Hassan directed by Mohammad Ali Talebi and Arash Talebi, Malekia by Mohammad Bagher Shahin and Parkingdirected by Abbas Omrani are also in the lineup.
Ariel directed by Laura Bari from Canada, Two Raging Grannies by Havard Bustnes from Norway, Frozen Man by Carolina Campo Lupo from Uruguay, and The Man Who Made Angels Fly by Wiktoria Szymanska from Poland are among the selected foreign films to compete at the International Competition section.
The festival also announced list of documentaries selected for the Panorama section of the event.
The Targeted Village by Chie Mikami, Animation Maestro Gisaburo Sugii by Masato Ishioka and Fallujah – War in Iraq, Japanese Hostages and… directed by Megumi Ito are the films that will highlight stories from Japan.
Panorama will also display US filmmaker Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer, which narrates the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko.
The section also screens French documentary Ashes directed by Idrissa Guiro and Mélanie Pavy, and three other films.
The year’s festival will be presented in two sections of national and international competitions.
The films will compete in various categories including short documentaries, medium-length documentaries and full-length ones as well as the Special section of international competitive and non-competitive section.
Iran’s Cinéma Vérité Festival screens a wide range of productions such as political, historical, ritualistic, religious, social, environmental, scientific, ethnological and war documentaries.
Organized by Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC), the annual festival tries to express the relationship between reality and truth.
The 2014 Cinema Vérité International Documentary Film Festival is scheduled to be held from November 30 to December 7.
