Festival Selections: Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Festival Selections: Asia Pacific Screen Awards In its new program in partnership with the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Docunight will showcase four outstanding documentaries by Iranian filmmakers. The Asia Pacific Screen Awards celebrates cinema and filmmaking in the Asia Pacific region and promotes these outstanding films to a global audience. The initiative has brought a great deal of attention to Iranian cinema in the last decade. Our new program features four Iranian documentaries, all of which have been awarded prizes at APSA: The Lost Land (Vahid Mousaian, 2006), Tinar (Mahdi Moniri, 2009), Amin (Shahin Parhami, 2010), and The Unseen (Behzad Nalbandi, 2019). These films bring to light extraordinarily candid subject matter and provide an alluring window into the creative processes of these inspiring directors, whose works have the remarkable effect of changing viewpoints and misconceptions.