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10/16/09
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Cinema Verite Festival kicks off in Tehran
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TEHRAN, Oct. 16 (Mehr News Agency) -- The Third Cinema Verite
Festival, an Iranian event highlighting documentary films, opened during a
ceremony at Tehran's Felestin Cinema on Thursday.
A total of 35 foreign documentaries from 19 countries including Canada, France,
Australia, Germany, Italy, Austria, India, Switzerland, and Poland will be
competing at the festival.
The event, which runs until October 21, is also slated to screen 76 films by
Iranian documentarians.
Last
August, 136 Iranian documentary filmmakers announced that they would not
participate in the festival
in a letter published by
the media.
They referred to restrictions imposed on Iranian documetarians covering the
unrest following Iran's June presidential election and said, "These conditions
make us react perforce... refusing to participate in the festival."
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mehrdad Oskuii, Kamran Shirdel, Mohsen Amiryusefi, Mahvash
Sheikholeslami, and Mojtab Mirtahmasb were among the filmmakers who signed the
letter.
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