‘Copper Notes of a Dream’ is about a ten-year-old Palestinian refugee, Malook, who lives in Jarmuk, a suburb of Damascus in Syria, which is ruined during the war with ISIS. Malook dreams of becoming a singer. Together with his older sister Ghofran, he is planning to organize a concert with professional musicians.

To earn money for the concert, Malook and some friends pull the copper lines out of the walls of empty buildings that are riddled with bullets and rockets and write apologies for their theft on the walls, in hope the people who have fled ever return.

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival also known as DMZ Docs, is a South Korean film festival for documentary films jointly presented by Gyeonggi Province, Paju and  Goyang.

Launched in 2009, it is held annually for seven days less than twenty kilometers from the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and showcases films dealing with “peace, coexistence and reconciliation.”

The 11th edition of DMZ, which is an Oscar-qualifying festival, will be held on 20-27 September 2019.

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‘Beloved’ was competing with ten other titles, including ‘Winter After Winter’ by Chinese filmmaker Xing Jian, for the NETPAC award, which is given to the best Asian film on behalf of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema.

‘Beloved’ has been one of the most successful Iranian documentaries in the past year, taking part in several notable film festivals such as Hot Docs and Berlin.

The film follows the life of an 80-year-old mother named Firouzeh who is fond of her isolated lifestyle in nature with her cows. The film shows her kind and loving character and demonstrates her bravery and strength tackling the hardship of life in the Alborz mountains without the modern comforts of technology. She believes happiness lies in the simplicity of life.

The fourth edition of Ulju Mountain Film Festival (UMFF) ran from Sept. 6-10, screening 31 movies from 20 countries.

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The documentary narrates the story of an Afghan girl who flees home because of an early marriage and domestic violence.

It won Best Director for Full-length Documentary, as well as Best Editing for Babak Heidari at the 12th Iran International Documentary Film Festival, known as Cinema Vérité.

Florence Film Awards is an IMDb qualifier, monthly international film festival in Florence. Each month, the juries will award the best films in various categories through private screenings.

A selection of short films will be screened every month in Florence at Scuola di Cinema Immagina (Immagina Film School).

Another Iranian title, short film ‘It Rains for You’, directed by Mohammad Mehdi, is also taking part at the Sep. edition of Florence Film Awards.

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‘Finding Farideh’ is a documentary about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, and now she overcomes her fears and travels to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her real family, and to find out about her Iranian identity and culture.

The documentary has taken part in a number of international film festivals such as the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in the US, and was selected as best documentary at the 20th Iran Cinema Celebration in Tehran in September 2013.

It is also slated to take part at the 19th Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival in Russia from September 20 to 26.

Iran’s entry for the previous edition of the Academy Awards was Vahid Jalilvand’s ‘No Date, No Signature’, which failed to make it to the list of nominees.

Iran won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2017 for ‘The Salesman’ and in 2012 for ‘A Separation’, both of which directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi.

The 92nd Academy Awards are slated to be held on February 9, 2020.

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‘Finding Farideh’ is about an Iranian girl named Farideh, who has been adopted by a Dutch couple 40 years ago, and now she overcomes her fears and travels to her motherland Iran for the first time to meet three families who claim to be her real family, and to find out about her Iranian identity and culture.

The documentary has taken part in a number of international film festivals such as the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in the US, and was selected as best documentary at the 20th Iran Cinema Celebration in Tehran in September 2013.

The Flahertiana festival is named after the American filmmaker Robert Flaherty, and rests upon principles first used by the director in his ‘Nanook of the North’. These are films where the hero lives on the screen a part of his life directed by the author according to the laws of dramatic art, according to the festival’s website.

Since 2006 the festival officially became annual international documentary film festival with international competition jury and FIPRESCI jury.

The 19th Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival will be held from September 20 to 26 in Perm, Russia.

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In April of 2010, after the construction of the Lafour dam, Lafourak and several other villages were flooded under 80 meters of water. ‘Lotus’ narrates the story of one old woman who has waited 12 years for permission to cross the lake to an island where the last resident of Lafourak waits for her.

The documentary won Best Director Documentary award at the 18th Beirut International Film Festival in Lebanon, as well as the ‘Artistic Vision Award’ at the 16th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in US.

Held annually in Melbourne, EFFA is Australia’s only international film festival dedicated to screening films with a focus on the environment. The films selected for the lineup, according to the festival, should have a focus on celebrating nature and wildlife, championing the people, organizations and projects protecting the environment, and illustrating the unprecedented global threats we face, including climate change, food sustainability, habitat loss and pollution.

The 10th EFFA will be held on October 24 – November 1, 2019, in Melbourne, Australia.

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Directed by Mohammadreza Vatandoust, Iranian documentary ‘Lotus’ had its Canadian premiere at the 19th edition of Gimli Film Festival on July 27.

In April of 2010, after the construction of the Lafour dam, Lafourak and several other villages were flooded under 80 meters of water. ‘Lotus’ narrates the story of one old woman who has waited 12 years for permission to cross the lake to an island where the last resident of Lafourak waits for her.

The documentary won Best Director Documentary award at the 18th Beirut International Film Festival in Lebanon, as well as the ‘Artistic Vision Award’ at the 16th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in US.

The Gimli Film Festival is a Canadian international film festival, held annually in Gimli, Manitoba. It is Manitoba’s largest film festival, showcasing a mix of narrative, documentary and experimental feature films and short films. The festival is known for its free outdoor beach film screenings, where films are projected on an 11-meter-tall screen erected annually in the waters of Lake Winnipeg.

The 19th edition of the event took place on July 24 – July 28, 2019.

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TEHRAN, Jul. 28 (MNA) – Iranian documentary ‘Women with Gunpowder Earrings’ directed by Reza Farahmand won three awards at the 14th International Documentary Film Festival ‘CRONOGRAF’ in Moldova.

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To earn money for the concert, Malook and some friends pull the copper lines out of the walls of empty buildings that are riddled with bullets and rockets and write apologies for their theft on the walls, in hope the people who have fled ever return.

Farahmand’s acclaimed documentary “Women with Gunpowder Earrings”, about a female journalist who covers stories about Syrian and Iraqi women and children in the war against the ISIS terrorists, was selected for the previous edition of the Semaine de la critique.

Six more documentaries including “Shalom Allah” by David Vogel from Switzerland, “Murghab” co-directed by Martin Saxer, Marlen Elders and Daler Kaziev from Germany and “The Euphoria of Being” by Réka Szabó from Hungary will go on screen in this section.

“Adolescents” by Sébastien Lifshitz from France, “Another Reality” co-directed by Noel Dernesch and Olli Waldhauer and “Lovemobil” by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss, both from Germany are also among the films.

The organizers of the Semaine de la critique plan to celebrate its 30th anniversary by a review of Swiss director Fredi M. Murer’s “Der Grüne Berg”, which was screened during the first edition in 1990.

The Semaine de la critique will take place in the Swiss city of Locarno from August 9 to 16, focusing on innovative films on the periphery of the mainstream – both formally and content wise.

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The film has recently received the best feature documentary award and a diploma at the 15th Kazan International Muslim Film Festival in the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as a special mention from 25th edition of Shanghai Television Festival in China.

‘Beloved’ follows the life of an 80-year-old mother named Firouzeh who is fond of her isolated lifestyle in nature with her cows. The film shows her kind and loving character and demonstrates her bravery and strength tackling the hardship of life in the Alborz mountains without the modern comforts of technology. She believes happiness lies in the simplicity of life.

Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival is the oldest of its kind in the Baltic countries.

According to the event’s website, one of the main themes of the festival is the survival of indigenous peoples and their cultures. But the screening program also includes social interpretations of contemporary society, portraits of interesting people and human relations as well as films on music and art.

The 33rd edition of the event began on June 25 and will wrap up on July 14.

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