Iran’s Cinema Verite to review Danish documentaries
TEHRAN – The 11th edition of the Cinema Verite, the Iranian international festival for documentary films, will review Danish documentary cinema by screening films from the country, the organizers announced on Sunday.
“Waiting for the Sun” and “Big Time” by Kaspar Astrup Schroder, “Amateurs in Space” by Max Kestner and “Natural Disorder” by Christian Sonderby Jepsen are among the films selected to screen.
The lineup also includes “Mission Rape - A Tool of War” co-directed by Katia Forbert Petersen and Annemette Mari Olsen, “Tutti a Casa - Power to the people?” by Lise Birk Pedersen and “1989” by Anders Ostergaard and Erzsebet Racz.
In 2016, the Cinema Verite reviewed a selection of documentaries screened at the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival – CPH: DOX.
The Documentary and Experimental Film Center is the organizer of the Cinema Verite festival, which will be held in Tehran from December 10 to 17.
Photo: A scene from “Waiting for the Sun” by Kaspar Astrup Schroder
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