Iran’s Cinema Vérité International Documentary Film Festival is planning to review a documentary on the late South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.Directed by Carlos Agullo and Mandy Jacobson, the documentary titled Plot for Peace is a political thriller about Mandela who believed in individual action and decided to change things.
Plot for Peace has won the Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution at the HIFF 2013.
Mandela served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election.
After years of resistance against apartheid rule in South Africa, Mandela was arrested in 1962. He was sentenced to life in prison, where he served over 27 years. He spent many of those years on Robben Island.
South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela has passed away at age 95 in his Johannesburg home on December 5, 2013.
In South Africa, Mandela is often known as Madiba, his clan name, or as tata, which means father.
Plot for Peace which discovers a new angle on the end of apartheid is scheduled to be screened at the International Competition section of Cinema Vérité festival.
The seventh edition of the festival will be presented in two sections of national and international competitions.
Iran’s 2013 Cinema Vérité International Documentary Film Festival is to screen a wide range of productions such as political, historical, ritualistic, religious, social, environmental, scientific, ethnological and war documentaries.
The films will compete in various categories including short documentaries, medium-length documentaries, and full-length documentaries, as well as Special section of international competitive and non-competitive section.
Cinema Vérité festival at this year’s edition is programmed to host a new section of Docudrama films in three categories of short, semi-length, full-length productions.
Organized by Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC), the annual festival tries to express the relationship between reality and truth though documentary films.
The seventh Cinema Vérité International Documentary Film Festival is scheduled to be held from December 10 to 17, 2013.
By Press TV
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