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Iranian center to screen four docs at Cannes Film Market

TEHRAN,May 12(MNA) -- Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) will screen four documentary films at the Cannes Film Market, which will be held from May 15 to 24. The documentaries are “I Am a White Mercenary” by Taha Karimi, “Seconds of Lead” by Farahnaz Sharifi, “Glimmer” by Omid Abdollahi and “Trucker and the Fox” by Arash Lahuti. “I Am a White Mercenary” is about Saeid Jaf, who claims to be a ‘Kurdish Schindler’ responsible for saving thousands of Kurds during Saddam Hussein’s infamous Al Anfal genocide in 1988. “Seconds of Lead” reflects the efforts Iranian author Narges Abyar made to explore the massacre of demonstrators during the reign of Iran’s last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in Tehran’s Jaleh Square on September 8, 1978. “Glimmer” tells the story of an old optician who is going to close his optometry shop due to his weak eyesight. But there is still a client who has not come to pick up her eyeglasses yet. “Trucker and the Fox” chronicles the life of Mahmud Kiani Falavarjani, a documentarian who does not have any academic education and is a trucker. The Marché du Film (Film Market) is the business counterpart of the Cannes Film Festival and one of the largest film markets in the world. Established in 1959, it is held annually in conjunction with the Cannes Festival.

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