The 10th Cinéma Vérité, Iran’s major international festival for documentary cinema, has opened in Tehran.

A number of Iranian celebrated documentarians attended the opening ceremony of the festival.

A collection of documentaries from different countries will be competing in different categories of the festival this year.

Around 2,000 international productions have been submitted to the 2016 edition of Cinéma Vérité, which is presented in two sections: national and international competitions.

The films are to compete in various categories, including short documentaries, medium-length documentaries, and full-length documentaries.

Iran’s Cinéma Vérité Festival screens a wide range of productions such as political, historical, ritualistic, religious, social, environmental, scientific, and war documentaries.

Organized by Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC), the annual festival tries to express the relationship between reality and truth.

Cinema Verite is underway from December 4 – 11, 2016 in Tehran with the slogan 'Truth is the Best Guide' which is a saying by Imam Ali (PBUH).