Cinema Verite reveals lineup for mining competition

The names of the accepted films to compete at 'Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Documentary Film' section of the 12th Cinema Verite, Iran’s major documentary film festival, have been announced.

This section of the event will be held in cooperation with Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) and Documentary & Experimental Film Center.

The section will put 16 titles on race, including 'Remember' by Shahran Baqeri, , 'Heiress of Kioumars' by Pejman Mazaheripour, 'Sleeping Black' by Rouhollah Akbari, 'Khuzestan Steel' by  Manouchehr Moshiri, and 'Granite' as well as 'Bread and Stone' by Mohammad Abdollahi.

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 protecting 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. Soureh in Isfahan, Shahid Avini in Bushehr, Setareh Baran in Tabriz, Howzeh Honari in Sari, and Golestan in Shiraz as well as Charsou in Tehran are the cinema halls to host the event.

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