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Sat, 24 Dec 2016 14:06:00 GMT

Arash Lahouti and Mohsen Ostadali Won Again

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:12:00 GMT

Bread and Tea, by Sarah Kaskas from Lebanon, received the trophy of the festival and $ 3,000 for the best short documentary and Mehdi Ghanavati for Hamja was prize and $ 4,000 for the best mid-length documentary in international section. Jury’s special diploma in the international documentary feature went to Mohsen Ostadali for Femininity and the festival trophy, diploma and $ 2,000 went to Vitaly Mansky for Under the Sun, from Russia, Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic. Arash Lahouti won the festival trophy, diploma and $ 5,000 for the best documentary feature, for Light Blue. Ahmad Zabeti Jahromy, Dimitris Kerkinos, Elma Tataragic, Mostafa Razaq Karimi, Wood Lin and Stefano Tealdi were the international jury of 10th Cinema Verite of Iran.

European Documentary Network Special Prize Goes to Mina Bozorgmehr and Hadi Kamali-Moghaddam

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:09:35 GMT

It Was Very Difficult to Judge This Year Films The moment of announcing the winner of EDN award is a tense one. Ten filmmakers presented their projects and are waiting for the final results. Ove Jensen, workshop manager of EDN consultants, thinks the same and finds films very close to each other. He said: “It was a difficult task. All the film we had selected had absorbing subjects, but in the end we should choose one. The meetings were brief and we had 8 sessions in 2 hours. Finally, because of its interesting subject and good presentation, The Missing Links managed to win the award.” He continued: “Documentaries take us where we’ve never been. Having access to documentary filmmakers is in fact having access to the heart of documentary and so, individual counseling sessions are very critical for getting to know their vision.” About the judging criteria this year’s film, Jensen said: “One of the most important issues for judges was choosing a film which could be global. The Missing Links is a story emerged from the Iranian people but it can easily bring its message to the global audience. About the facilities that EDN provides the winner, Ove Jensen said: “the winner becomes a member of EDN. She or he can also use the organization's counseling sessions for free. Through our various networks, we'll help we have to find the budget for making films.” Who Are The Prize Winners? The winners of this grand prize are Mina Bozorgmehr and Hadi Kamali-Moghaddam, who are supposed to co-direct The Missing Links. They didn’t expect the award and said: “we didn’t believe we could win this award. The project was accepted earlier in ZDF, but was rejected in the second round. After that, and before this festival, there was an open call a proposals for documentary movies. So we sent our plan. Before starting to write it, we consulted with a few experts of the field. With the interesting tips and ideas they told us, we managed to write an acceptable plan. The advices EDN is supposed to give us is not really comparable to any other workshop. It’s true they don’t fund us directly, but their experience and advices can be very useful for making the movie. Getting to work with an international team, is a good thing that happened to us in this festival.” Those Who Didn’t Win About this documentary which is about to be made with the aid of EDN, Hadi Kamali-Moghaddam said: “It is about a photographer – Akbar Nazemi – who has owns a lot of photos and videos, but for some reasons prefers to not use them. He buries them in his yard and waits for a time to bring them out. After a few years, Akbar he immigrates to Canada and later, through his brother, he finds out that the house was sold. This doesn’t worries him much, because he still hopes that someday, he’ll return to Iran and take photos and videos. Nazemi later found out that the house was demolished and a towers were built in its place. The story we want to narrate starts exactly here. In fact, we join Akbar Nazemi in his search. Whether we find these videos or not, The Missing Link is the story of this search. Before this, Hadi Kamali-Moghaddam and Mina Bozorgmehr has made Janbal, which has not been shown. They also have made several short documentaries. The Experience of Consulting With European Documentary Network Khatere Hannachi is one of the filmmakers that her plan was accepted in the first round but failed to win a special prize of EDN. She said: “Competing for EDN special prize was a good experience at Cinema Verite. Although my project was not selected, these people gave me good ideas; ideas about how to make the movie, attention to visual aspects and how to make the documentary more moving for the audience. I think it was one of the best parts of this year’s festival. During their conversations with introduced their projects, these consultants gave them useful information and ideas. The ideas are one of the basic needs of Iranian filmmakers and improve the quality of their films. The connection that has been made between filmmakers to and EDN consultants in the last few days, is one that will remain with all of us.” Another filmmaker, Farzad Jamshidi, also tried to gain the award. About this experience, he said: “It was very useful for first time filmmakers and those who didn’t have the experience of counseling at international level. The time was limited, but it was advice at its best and we gained everything possible. EDN consultants work at high global levels and provide excellent ideas. No doubt I will use their ideas.”

What happened in the first day at the film market?

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:05:08 GMT

In the first sitting, , Nicholas Kildgard Angstrom, the planner in the Copenhagen Documentary Festival (Denmark) Elma Tataragic from the Bosnia Herzegovina Film Festival, Jiovna Nazaro from,the director of Critics Week in Venice Film Festival (Italy) and the representative of Vsion du Reél, Dorail (Switzerland) talked with filmmakers. After that, Daniel Kim, the chief executive of Busan film market (Korea) and Radovan Sibert, producer and broadcaster (Czech Republic) discussed ways of getting founds, finding producers and entering festivals. Radovan Sibert talked about examples of successfully Iranian filmmakers and said: "Mohammad Reza Farzad is one of the filmmakers who managed to find a producer just by describing his ideas." With showing your film in important festivals, and not in all of them, you can introduce your work and find fund for next ones." Also, Daniel Kim went through Pusan Film Festival form and said: “last year in our festival, that is just for to Asian films, we introduced Abas Kiarostami was and along with 10 movies by him, we showed10 movies by other Iranian filmmakers. He pointed out workshops alongside the festival and said: “In this workshops, you can find very good information on subjects like as point of view and techniques, as well as space for discussion with guests and investors.” These meetings will continue until Friday, with other international guests.

An App That Tells You Screening Times

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:00:58 GMT

First, you install Winkler from App Store, Google play or Bazaar, tgen,when in Charsou Cinema Complex, take your mobile in front of a festival poster and this app shows you all the information you want.

Cinema Verite Has Become More Fruitful Every Year

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:58:22 GMT

Many of our intellectuals work in this field. You cannot make good documentaries without knowledge and experience.” He added: “The part of Iranian cinema which I’m very interested in is documentary cinema. This is a cinema for the scholar, literate and thinker.” Ayoubi continued: “Movies that documentarians show in Cinema Verite, are the lasting films of Iranian cinema, subjects they find with their hearts and minds and capture them, subjects others might not see or pay attention to it.”

Movies in Cinema Verite Have as Little Censorship as Possible

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:54:25 GMT

This director of "The Two", who is attending the festival in 30-60 documentaries section said: “Only after a decade, the International Cinema Verite can be compared to the world's top festivals, and today, when look at the list of films, guests and representatives of other festivals, we can have this prospect that in a few years, in spite of all restrictions, it grows so much that like great festivals of the world, shows movies for the first time. About the place of Cinema Verite, he said: ”Today this festival has reached the point that any Iranian filmmaker likes his work to be included in it and the festival has reached the maturity that you can see all technical and artistic achievements of the year and see our growth and weak points.”

Manouchehr Tayaab Cut the cake for Cinema Verite 10th Year

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:51:49 GMT

At the beginning of the ceremony the festival director said: “Each year, the opening ceremony for festival is not in a common way, and so, this year the festival started in a friendly gathering.” Manouchehr Tayaab told some of his memories about entering the documentary cinema and said: “I have to go back 50 years. The day we were only four, and we went abroad to study and Cinema. We've come a long rocky way, from the days when there was no documentary cinema.” He continued: “There was only a center for making educational films and that's why it’s like a dream for me to stand here today. Documentaries have opened a path for us to introduce intellectuals to the society. Because of it we hold our heads high in the international stages. I was a jury member in several festivals and there, when they were showing Iranian documentaries, movie theaters were always full, because the audience were curious about our country and rightfully, think of it as a country with thousands years of culture.” Tayaab said: “In documentary cinema, we show ourselves naked and we should go closer to reality and our young people went through a lot of trouble for this. I hope there would be more activities in this field and the government pays more attention to it, so that there will be more documentary in various parts of Iran.”

Mostafa Razaq Karimi: It Is Important to have Young Filmmakers in Cinema Verite

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:50:04 GMT

” He continued: “Cinema Verite is a reliable place for young filmmakers to grow and encourages to increase the quality of their works. Also, the audience finds watching their works intresting.” Razaq Karimi pointed the appearance of Iran's documentaries abroad and said: “I believe before the world knows our works, we need to know them ourselves.” In his opinion, the festival is effective in improving documentaries and said: “In these ten years, there was an effort for improving the qualitative and quantitative of documentaries in Iran. The path that Cinema Verite has taken in these years lead to making strong filmmakers.” On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:21 AM Hosseini wrote:

Wood Lin who for the first time comes to at the Cinema Verite international festival said:

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:47:38 GMT

In an interview with our correspondent, this guest said: “There is an international film festival in Taiwan that has a special section for Asian movies and I saw Iranian movies there. Naturally, some were good and some were not, but if I compare it with other countries, it seems that most Iranian filmmakers are independent filmmakers.” He thinks the characteristic of Iranian documentary filmmakers is addressing the country’s rural life and said: “I look at Iranian films based on their culture, language and particular area that they come from. Each of them can be a new window into a world that we do not know.”