TEHRAN -- The 8th edition of Cinéma Vérité, the Iranian international festival for documentary films, plans to review a lineup of documentaries, which were screened at an anthropological documentary film festival in Tallinn, Estonia this summer.
The anthropological film festival was held by Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) on the sidelines of the 13th Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Tallinn.
The films are “Bridging the Divide”, a UK-Canada joint production directed by Aliaa Remtilla, “Masters Of Overtone Singing” by Jean-François Castell from France, “Behind the Wheel” by Elise Laker from Britain and “Ainu: Pathways To Memory” a Japan-Spane joint production by Marcos P. Centeno.
Films by a number of U.S. documentarians will be screened in this section. The films are “Building Pharaoh’s Chariot” directed by Martin O’Collins, “Dancing Salmon Home” by Will Doolittle, “Dance of the Maize God” by David Lebrun and “Smokin’ Fish” by Luke Griswold-Tergis and Cory Mann.
The lineup also includeds “In Search of Truth: The Mystery of the Inquisition in Narni” by Giorgio Serafini Prosperi from Italy, “The Peacock Angel” by Melek Taus from Hungary, “Flowers from the Mount Olive” by Heilika Pikkov from Estonia and “Ashiq” by Xiangcheng Liu from China.
The 8th edition of Cinéma Vérité will held in Tehran from November 30 to December 7.
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