The 2014 Cinéma Vérité film festival kicks off in Iran’s capital, Tehran.[/caption]The 8th edition of the Iranian international festival for documentary films Cinéma Vérité has kicked off in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.
The festival began the year’s programs during a ceremony held today, November 30.
The event is 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.
Iranian documentarian Kamran Shirdel, Australia’s World Congress of Science and Factual Producers editorial director Alison Leigh and Polish filmmaker Pawel Lozinski are the members of the jury for the feature length documentary section.
The members of the jury for the mid-length and short film sections are Iranian filmmaker Mahvash Sheikholeslami, Italian film critic Giona Antonio Nazzaro and Egyptian critic Yakout El-Deeb.
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 International Competition section of the event.
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 is also to host a number of workshops by a group of world-renowned film experts and documentarians.
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 run until December 7.
By Press TV
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