Documentary, Experimental & Animation Film Center (DEFC) organizes 19th "CinemaVérité" Iran International Documentary Film Festival
December 2025, in Tehran, Iran
The festival tries to express the relationship between reality and truth through documentary films.
The festival will be held on December 2025.
Awards & Prizes
The international Jury will award the following prizes:
1. Best Feature Documentary, longer than 60 minutes, prize, Diploma and trophy of the festival.
2. Best Mid-Length Documentary, 40 to 60 minutes, prize, Diploma and trophy of the festival.
3. Best Short documentary to 40 minutes, prize, Diploma and trophy of the festival.
4. Special Jury prize: prize, Diploma and trophy of the festival.
Rules & Terms
I. International Competition
The international competition consists of three sections:
Up to 40 minutes (Short Competition Section)
40 to 60 minutes (Mid-length Competition Section)
60 minutes and up (Feature-length Competition Section)
The eligible documentaries:
- Produced after January 2024
- All formats and subjects.
II. Non-competitive section
All the documentaries in all lengths, formats, and subjects produced after 2023 are eligible to participate in "Special, Tribute, Retrospective and Panorama sections” which is non-competitive.
Films shoud be submitted via: Submit
Dates & Deadlines
Opening Date
June 05, 2025
Earlybird
July 31, 2025
Regular Deadline
August 31, 2025
Notification Date
November 07, 2025
Event Date
December 9 – 14, 2025