http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/ninth_festival Sun, 19 May 2024 07:56:13 GMT /skins/default/en/15festival/ch01_newsfeed_logo.gif http://old.irandocfest.ir/ 100 70 en Copyright© Irandocfest.ir, all rights reserved Sun, 19 May 2024 07:56:13 GMT The 9th Festival 60 http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1626/korean-enduring-love-tale-wins-main-award In a night where South Korean filmmaker Jin Moyoung prevailed, Iranian documentary maker Amirshahab Razavian hosted the event Tehran’s famous Vahdat Hall. Director of Leipzig International Film Festival Leena Pasanen, DR Sales’ Danish Programme & Sales Manager Jan Daae, and Iranian filmmaker Manoochehr Tayab formed this year's prestigious jury deciding which of the 10 feature-length documentary competition entries would walk away with the $5,000 and $2000 cash awards on top of the festival’s statuette. On the other hand, Director of Lisbon Film Festival Augusto M. Seabra, Director of Anuuru Aboro Film Festival Jean-Francois Corral and Iranian Cineaste and Cinema Professor Ahmad Alasti formed the Mid-length and Short Documentaries competition section that would hand 3 cash awards, $4000, $3000 and $2000 respectively. The first award of the night, the Special Jury Award, including a $2000 cash prize, a diploma of honour and the festival statuette went to Francesco Don Giovanni’s mid-length documentary Giano from Italy. The Best Short Documentary award, including a $3000 cash prize, a diploma of honour and the festival statuette, went to Hamid Jafari, Director of the documentary Bard from Iran. And the Best Mid-Length Documentary award, including a $4000 cash prize, a diploma of honour and the festival statuette, went to Martin Sola, director of the documentary The Chechen Family from Argentina. In the long documentaries competition section, the Special Jury Award including the festival statuette, diploma of honour and a $2000 cash prize went to Behrooz Nooranipoor, director of A157 from Iran. But the main award of the night, the Best Long Documentary award including the festival statuette, diploma of honour and a $5000 cash prize went to Jin Moyoung, director of My Love, Don’t Cross That River from South Korea.   ]]> The 9th Festival Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:53:12 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1626/korean-enduring-love-tale-wins-main-award http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1585/hope-for-a-busy-film-market We thought that this year's Film Market of the Cinéma Vérité Festival could be a suitable platform for information exchange between documentarians and distributors due to the limited number of companies active in selling documentary films in comparison to feature films in Iranian cinema. In this situation, the Film Market prepares the ground for those active in documentary cinema, from directors to producers or even organizations and institutions, to have interaction with Iranian and international distributors. This year we sent the name list and email addresses of all the guests present at the Film Market to all the people active in the documentary cinema and directors who have movies at the national competition section to make it easier for them for getting in touch with the guests.   This year we invited nearly 40 foreign guests. Some of them are part of the jury boards. Others are directors and a number of guests have been recommended to us by EDN for giving presentations at the workshops. The latter group is made of mostly buyers or people interested in joint productions with Iranians or working with TV channels. Even though this year's edition of the festival is being held near Christmas holidays, but we were able to invite most of the people that we had in mind and they accepted our invitation. A number of the foreign guests of this year's festival are coming from different festivals or they are managers of international festivals or renowned artists on the international stage. That is why I predict that this year's Film Market would result in better outcomes.             ]]> The 9th Festival Sat, 19 Dec 2015 07:19:37 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1585/hope-for-a-busy-film-market http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1583/professional-work-distribution-essential-in-documentary-filmmaking If we look at documentary cinema as an industry and highlight its media aspect, we should pay enough attention to the professional work distribution. Of course there maybe some exceptions; some films are made by one camera and by one person alone due to special conditions. We accept these exceptions and the fact that there are some documentaries that are made this way. It is possible to make a valuable film by a mobile phone but we don't recommend it as a mainstream pattern for documentary production. Therefore, specialties should be given high importance in documentary cinema that is a very professional job.   Documentaries enjoy great capacity for screening and a sufficient number of theaters should be allocated to them. Of course this should be done gradually. Expansion of the audience realm, achieved through selection of appropriate films, would be surely effective in finding serious spectators in movie theaters. Three of four years ago and during a special period of time, the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association screened documentaries at Azadi Cinema and those films absorbed a higher number of spectators in comparison to the feature films. The most important thing is to move forward based on a clear and step-by-step plan.          ]]> The 9th Festival Sat, 19 Dec 2015 06:59:11 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1583/professional-work-distribution-essential-in-documentary-filmmaking http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1582/social-filmmaker-shouldn-t-wait-for-events-to-happen A social film could be made in a good way or poorly; in case it is made poorly, it is of no use. For instance, a film could be made about Daesh that is a bad one and is therefore of no use. So, we should make good films in different fields, especially at a time when having a serious documentary cinema is one of the signs of development. We have selected a very appropriate name for this cinema: "Cinéma Vérité." It is a very serious name for a committed documentary cinema that is expected to show us a very exact and real image, enabling us to discover ourselves and as a result choose our future way better. If the filmmaker does not want to find a direction and wait for the events to happen, he or she is making a mistake because it is not clear how those events would take place. Therefore the filmmaker should have a direction but that should be in line with Cinéma Vérité or better to say the filmmaker should not fall into the reality diversion trap.   We need to tell our youngsters to talk freely and honestly with us. When he or she did that, we could also talk honestly with them. I think many of our youth love their country and people. They only need to be managed more seriously; a defined long-term strategic cultural management. In case we don't have that, we will go through this unfinished route endlessly and we would fail in having a serious and impressive documentary cinema. I hope one day a clear, defined, and long-term management with a cultural horizon better than today is created to make documentary cinema, and as a result culture and art, flourishing.   ]]> The 9th Festival Sat, 19 Dec 2015 06:56:16 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1582/social-filmmaker-shouldn-t-wait-for-events-to-happen http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1580/documentarists-shouldn-t-be-too-cautious My advice to the young generation is that you should try to become good filmmakers. Once that happens, the festival themselves will come to you and follow your works. But don't try to participate at the festivals with your first film since that shouldn't be considered as a value. If the interaction between Iranian cinema and the international one is based on a good foundation, then the youngsters know for sure that in case they have made a good film, they would be in the spotlight and their works would be shown at prestigious festivals. During the nearly past 50 years that I have been active in Iranian cinema, whether fiction or documentary, I've witnessed that our cinema is always dependent on individual talents and has ignored making the necessary infrastructures. Until the day that our cinema is dependent on individual talents and essential infrastructures have not been formed, our cinema shines one day and is forgotten the other day.   The social problems should be depicted in the films but when filmmakers do that, they face objections. We all know that in the executive works or issues related to medical issues or hospitals, we have some problems and it is possible that the filmmaker want to raise such matters with people and the official within the framework of a dramatic work.        ]]> The 9th Festival Sat, 19 Dec 2015 06:24:07 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1580/documentarists-shouldn-t-be-too-cautious http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1323/film-should-be-true-to-both-characters-and-filmmaker Addressed to the audience of Cinema Verite Iran International Documentary Film Festival, the letter reads:      “We sometimes think of our films as explorations and we are the explorers. The camera is a kind of detective, looking for clues and evidence to give truth to our story, which is not ours alone, although we sometimes think of it as ours because the exploration can be difficult.  It also belongs to the characters we have filmed. When we begin we have a handshake agreement that we will show the finished film to the protagonists and if they see things we’ve got wrong we’ll try to correct them. The film should be true for the film’s characters as well as its makers. We want it to be a true story. The filmmakers rule the cameras that film the story but the story’s characters and their lives give it life.”   -with gratitude from Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker ]]> The 9th Festival Sun, 13 Dec 2015 09:51:45 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1323/film-should-be-true-to-both-characters-and-filmmaker http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1322/adiloglu-nothing-artificial-about-our-film Asked about his film and its selection for this year’s edition of the festival, he said: “"Beyond the Hills" shows a part of life in one family where 3 women and one man live together. We wanted to show another reality of Azerbaijan. The atmospheric silence of life is not at all artificial. I mean there is no artificial, untrue, or dramatized aspect to it.” Adiloglu said about Cinema Verite: “Elvin told me about Cinema Verite. He says: "Some festivals can't understand deep films. But Cinema Verite is one of the most important festivals in the world. It’s an original and independent festival in Iran.” Commenting on Iranian documentary cinema, he added: “I know One Land, Five Nations of Mahmoud Shoolizadeh, Sara in Ten Minutes from Sadaf Foroughi, and some other Iranian documentaries. Also This is Not a Film by Jafar Panahi.”  Asked about what type of film or subject has more international appeal, he added: “Good and deep films don't have borders. But in recent years human reality seems to be more interesting for festivals.” Beyond the Hills is a documentary about life in the countryside of Azerbaijan. The 9th edition of Cinema Verite will be held Dec 13-19, 2015, in Tehran.     ]]> The 9th Festival Sun, 13 Dec 2015 09:48:52 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1322/adiloglu-nothing-artificial-about-our-film http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1321/picture-of-a-man-dedicated-to-books Asked about her film and its selection for this year’s edition of the festival, she said: “Bokmannen (The book man) is about a young man who runs a second hand book shop in a small town north of Norway, Volda. We follow “Bokammen” in a week of his life at work. In his shop, he reads several books in one day, solves Rubik cubes, plays chess with himself and waits for customers. Days go by! Monday to Sunday - day by day, boredom builds up to extreme heights as words come together and world fall apart. Bokmannen is a film about a man who decided to fulfil his love to books for the best and the worst. With humor and deep respect, we go inside his thoughts where he reveals his feelings. As he says himself, this business would have been a great business 100 years ago…” Greenberg said about Cinema Verite: “Cinema vérité the festival, we don’t know so much about it! From what we see in the website, it looks like there is very eclectic selection of films. So we are looking very forward to come.”  commenting on Iranian documentary cinema, he added: “Unfortunatly we haven’t seen so much Iranian documentary films but we are going to work on it right now. Though we do enjoy watching iranian fiction films which are very inspiring for ex. Blackboard (Samira Makhmalbaf), A separation (Asghar Farhadi), Taxi (Panahi)...”  Asked about what type of film or subject has more international appeal, he said: “.It is difficult to say. It is very diverse selection usually but at the end it is always about human beings, about life...” Bokmannen (The Bookman) is a documentary about a man named Geir who reads as many as 2000 books. Behind this huge number hides the routine of workdays spent in his bookshop. Static shots from the life of this lonely anti-hero are spliced with insights into his inner world presented through black and white animated sequences of his self-revealing commentary. The 9th edition of Cinema Verite will be held Dec 13-19, 2015, in Tehran.   ]]> The 9th Festival Sun, 13 Dec 2015 09:46:19 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1321/picture-of-a-man-dedicated-to-books http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1232/revisiting-the-number-1-on-his-birthday The director said: “I selected 3 different stages of Nasser Hejazi’s life: one reviewing his days of glory, on reviewing his childhood, and another dedicated to the betrayals he faced towards the end of his career.” Commenting on the film’s research, he added: “The research took 4 months and the legend’s family provided us with excellent and original material.” Nima Tabatabaei had previously made From Rio to Tehran about the former Brazilian international player Jerzinho who had visited Iran a few years before. The 9th edition of Cinema Verite will begin next week in Tehran. ]]> The 9th Festival Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:46:42 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1232/revisiting-the-number-1-on-his-birthday http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1195/iranian-fiction-inspires-me Asked about her film and its selection for this year’s edition of the festival, she said: “Dreamcatcher is about the secrets and lies that many families hide.   It follows a brave pioneer of change, Brenda Myers Powell, as she cruises the streets of Chicago at night and counsels young girls and women.  It's a bit like Panahi's The Circle which also portrayed deadly patterns.” Well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination, Longinotto said about Cinema Verite: “It sounds a great Festival and it seems to be doing a good job. I've never been to it but I love Iran.”  Having studied camera and directing at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England -where she now tutors occasionally- she commented on Iranian documentary cinema: “I've watched a few very good documentary films made in Iran, but my inspiration has been Iranian fiction.   "Where is my Friend's House?" by Kiarostami.   All Jafar Panahi's films.   I adored "The Separation"(Asghar Farhadi) -it's one of my all-time favorite films.    All of these fiction films have a distinct documentary feel.”  Asked about what type of film or subject has more international appeal, she added: “It's very hard to generalize.   I try not to make sweeping statements about anything. Life, like the best films, is contradictory and perverse.” Dreamcatcher is a documentary about a former Chicago prostitute who helps women and teenage girls break the cycle of abuse and exploitation - and lays bare the hidden violence that devastates the lives of young women, their families and the communities they live in. The 9th edition of Cinema Verite will be held Dec 13-19, 2015, in Tehran. ]]> The 9th Festival Sun, 06 Dec 2015 14:59:55 GMT http://old.irandocfest.ir/en/news/1195/iranian-fiction-inspires-me