Iran fest to host 100 countries

Over 100 countries have requested to participate at the Cinema Verite Film Festival in Iran.

The 12th edition of the festival will host films and documentaries from more than 100 countries all around the world.

Filmmakers from Italy, Brazil, Spain, Turkey, US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Canada, Argentina, Poland, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Greece, Ukraine, The Netherlands, China, Egypt, Romania, Colombia, Austria and Switzerland have requested to join the festival.

The list goes on with Ireland, Finland, Serbia, Sweden, South Africa, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Ecuador, Slovakia, Norway, Thailand, Malaysia, Armenia, Bosnia, Nigeria and many others.

The following edition of the event will hold different sections, including national competition, international competition, Shahid Avini Award and professional workshops.

Organized by the Documentary and Experimental Film Center, the first edition of Cinema Verite was held in 2007.

Over the past decade it has emerged as one of the important events on Iran's documentary film calendar.

The Cinema Verite aims at protection of the nation's identity, promoting creative documentary, reinforcing the link between documentary cinema and social facts and events, introducing new global developments in documentary cinema, providing financial support for documentarians by distributing and screening their works in other festivals and removing hurdles to film production.

The 12th edition of the Cinema Verite is slated for December 9-16, 2018, in Tehran.

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