TEHRAN – The Iranian documentary “Forgotten,” directed by Saeed Nabi and Mariam Kadivi, will be included in the 10th Planeta Dock International Festival of Social and Environmental Films, currently being held in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
The festival brings together notable environmental works from around the world. Mair reports that the International Specialty Television Network, a professional and renowned producer and broadcaster of environmental documentaries around the world, including National Geographic, Love Nature, Canal Off, and Travel Box Brazil, are also attending the event.
Forgotten is a narrative documentary that intimately depicts the real life of world and Paralympic champion Abdulkazem Saki, who lives near the Khor Al Azim wetland. He tries to maintain his physical strength every morning. Saki’s professional fate is very similar to that of the marshes.
Khor al-Azim is Iran’s largest border wetland, covering an area of over 120,000 hectares in the Dasht-e-Azadegan region of Khuzestan province, in the southwest of the country.
Wetlands play an irreplaceable role in the economic functions and lives of local residents. This is also important from a dust prevention perspective. Therefore, it is considered the heart of people’s life, environmental protection and tourism development.
IRIB Media Trade holds the international distribution rights for “Forgotten” and participated in the 29th International Ecological Television Festival “To Save and Preserve” in Russia and the 4th World Film Festival Kolkata (WFFK) in India earlier this year.
For their previous short documentary, Standing with the Wolf, Nabi and Kadivi won several awards, including an award from the Irkutsk Regional Museum at the 23rd Baikal International Film Festival of Documentaries and Popular Science Films “People and Environment” held in Russia last September.
Planeta.Doc is one of the most prominent platforms in Latin America dedicated to environmental films. This year’s program is structured around three central themes: climate change, indigenous peoples, and environmental justice, and aims to raise public awareness, support creative action on environmental issues, and draw the attention of both the public and policymakers to pressing environmental issues around the world.
The 10th edition of the festival opens on September 25th and will run until December 25th in a hybrid format, with an extensive online program accessible throughout Brazil. The event will feature a carefully selected selection of international, Brazilian and regional (Catalinense) documentaries, animations and virtual reality films focusing on socio-environmental and scientific themes.
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