Cinema Verite’s Portrait to show 12 foreign docs

The Portrait section of the 19th Iran International Documentary Film Festival Cinema Verite has announced its lineup.

According to the announcement, twelve foreign documentaries will be screened in this year’s Portrait section.

The lineup includes ‘Ennio’ directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, ‘Shadows Behind the Frame’ by Ivan Baturin, ‘Lost Memories in an Imaginary Hurricane’ by Víktor Luna, ‘Marlon Brando: Beyond VistaVision’ by V Trent, ‘Once Upon a Silver Screen’ by Martin George, ‘Cast of Shadows’ by Sami Joubert van Ingen, ‘Playing with Dolls’ by Valeriy Rudolfovich Ryabin, and ‘Here, Dimitris Makris - Portrait of a Director’ by Paolo Stemmini and Francesco Tassara.

The long list of the lineup goes on with ‘Three Deaths of Merian Cooper’ by Rafael Salata and Paweł Gargas, ‘Vlasta, the Memory Is not Everlasting’ by Candela Vey and Tino Pereira, ‘What Mad Pursuit’ by Danny Dey, and ‘Cahide Sonku, Türkiye's First Female Producer and Director’ by Nurullah Güzel.

The Cinema Verite is organized by the Documentary & Experimental Film Center (DEFC).

The festival tries to express the relationship between reality and truth through documentary films.

The 19th edition of the festival, with Mohammad Hamidi-Moqaddam as the secretary, will be held on December 10-17 in Tehran.