Wana - Latest News Selected Films Non–Competition :: Full Edition http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/eighth_festival/toolbar_menu/NonCompetition Sun, 19 May 2024 11:05:10 GMT /skins/default/en/15festival/ch01_newsfeed_logo.gif Produced by Cinema Verite http://old.irandocfest.ir/ 100 70 en Copyright© Irandocfest.ir, all rights reserved Sun, 19 May 2024 11:05:10 GMT Selected Films Non–Competition 60 To fly or not to fly http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/460/to-fly-or-not-to Synopsis: The singular beauty of wild nature is hard to understand. Working in thickets on a thin strip of land between the sea and the lake, bird researchers try to at least describe it setting off on their expeditions regardless of bad weather and difficult conditions.   ]]> Selected Films Non–Competition Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:08:19 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/460/to-fly-or-not-to Slow http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/459/slow Synopsis: A meditative journey into the mystical world of those marvelous creatures popularly known - but yet ignored far too often - as snails and a beautiful & cinematic walking meditation.   ]]> Selected Films Non–Competition Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:07:35 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/459/slow Sati http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/458/sati Synopsis: A film reminiscence about Piotr Morawski, a conqueror of six eight-thousanders and a participant of the first in history winter expedition to Shishapangma who died in the Himalayas, at the slope of Dhaulagiri, on 8 April 2009. His story is reported by the mountaineer’s wife, Olga, full of both grief and respect for her husband’s passion. The meetings with Olga Morawska, edited in the film, occurred over a period of a few months following her husband’s death. The first one was just a month after the accident.   ]]> Selected Films Non–Competition Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:06:41 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/458/sati H2O MX http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/457/h2o-mx Synopsis:  Mexico City was built not near water but in the middle of a lake. To supply it with fresh water is such a task that it makes it compulsory to bring it from other states. In addition once sewage water leaves the city it ends up in agriculture. This film is an environmental case study of the Valley of Mexico as it struggles to save itself while its population grows.   ]]> Selected Films Non–Competition Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:05:47 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/457/h2o-mx Desert Haze http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/456/desert-haze Synopsis: The American West….A world where human life seems to be impossible... An arid, mythical landscape characterized by the absence of water. But then traces start to appear and the film becomes a peculiar portrait of America, between present and past, myth and reality. Astronauts preparing for future missions to Mars, Japanese country singers, military archeologists, and many other forms of life.     ]]> Selected Films Non–Competition Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:04:16 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/456/desert-haze Beneath our feet http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/455/beneath-our-feet Synopsis: With focused gestures and a worried face, Jean-Marie walks quickly. I follow him. He experiences his work fervently, next to his ewes, with their resistance and their docility.   ]]> Selected Films Non–Competition Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:03:29 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/455/beneath-our-feet