The 19th Marseille International Documentary Film Festival will be the venue for a screening of Life by Iran’s Mahmoud Kiyani Falavarjani.
The semi-fictional documentary is the only representative of the Iranian cinema to be screened as part of the French festival’s international program.
Life depicts the daily routine of an elderly photographer who passes the time by going to local parks and taking photographs. The man eventually begins to snap images of a certain young woman in his ‘mind’s eye’ only to believe the images have come to life during an illness.
This year, the festival celebrates the ‘marriage’ between documentary and fiction aesthetics.
“Marriage projects confident union, the preservation of diversities, and an increase of wonderful complexities,” said festival director Jean-Pierre Rehm on the festival’s official website.
The 2008 Marseille International Documentary Film Festival runs from July 2 to 7 and its international program will include 33 documentaries from 19 countries.
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