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TEHRAN -- The 8th edition of Cinéma Vérité, the Iranian international festival for documentary films, plans to screen a lineup of documentaries in the Panorama section which will highlight stories from Japan.
Eight films have been selected for this section, the Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC), which is the organizer of the festival, announced in a press release on Wednesday.
Among the highlights of the lineup is “Fallujah – War in Iraq, Japanese Hostages and…” directed by Megumi Ito about Japanese civilians who were taken hostage by a militant group in Iraq in 2004, and received a hostile reception after being freed and returning home.
“The Targeted Village” by Chie Mikami is another film of the collection. It traces the deceptive introduction of the Osprey military helicopter onto a major military base in Okinawa and the opposition it aroused in the local community, which eventually extended throughout the island.
Masato Ishioka’s “Animation Maestro Gisaburo Sugii”, which is about Ginsaburo Sugi, one of the founding fathers of Japanese animation, will also be screened in this section.
Panorama will also show U.S. filmmaker Zachary Heinzerling’s “Cutie and the Boxer”, which explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko.
The lineup also includes French documentary “Ashes” directed by Idrissa Guiro and Mélanie Pavy, and three other films.
The 8th edition of Cinéma Vérité will held in Tehran from November 30 to December 7.
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