700 int’l films register for Cinema Verite

Over 700 international documentaries have been registered for the Cinema Verite Film Festival in Iran.

Some 20 days after the call for entries, the secretariat of the 17th edition of the event has received 700 international documentaries from various countries.

Among all the received works, the list includes 492 shorts, 38 features and 179 documentaries.

The selection committee of the event will review and choose the best films among the volunteers.

Among the works, as usual, most of the works that have reached this edition of the festival are documentaries with social themes.

The Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) organizes the festival every year which showcases the very best of the documentary world to bridge the gap what they term between reality and truth.

The Cinema Verite has several sections, including National, International, and Martyr Avini Prize, Entrepreneurship Documentary Competition, Coronavirus Special Section, Side Sections and commemorations.

The international section of the festival contains several non-competition sections such Special Displays, Mirror of a Festival, Portrait and Perspective of One Country Documentary Cinema.

This year’s edition of the event is scheduled for December.

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