Short Film News (SFN) - The winners of the first Iran International Documentary Film Festival: Cinema Verite were announced on 20 October 2007 in Tehran.
In International Competition, the jury members of Feature Documentary section, including Rakhshan Bani Etemadi, Toghrol Artoonkal, and Sean Farnel dedicated the grand prize of this section that was a turquoise symbol, an honored diploma and the amount of 10 thousand Euros to City of Photographers by Sebastian Moreno from Chile.
Short Film News (SFN) - The twentieth International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will open with Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience by Richard Robbins.
This film which competes in the festival's Joris Ivens Competition, centres on the letters, poems, essays and diary fragments of American soldiers serving in Iraq.
Short Film News (SFN) -IDFA audience has chosen Top 20 IDFA documentaries.
IDFA held an election this summer among its documentary audience to select a personal top 5 from all documentaries made over the past 20 years that screened at IDFA and this Top 20 is going to be shown this year, in the 20th anniversary of this festival.
