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Souzian Dispatch is a weekly newsletter covering film festivals, filmmaker interviews, and selected industry updates from across the Middle East.
From Tehran and Istanbul to Cairo and Beirut, it offers curated insights into the international journey of regional cinema for filmmakers, programmers, and curious readers.
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This is my second year attending the Cinema Verite Documentary Film Festival as a distributor. The festival is held every year in Tehran, and this edition introduced a new section called Iran, created after the recent attack by Israel. The section focuses on films about national identity and historical memory. I attended the festival with my colleague Ms. Mahkame Majdi. The venue changed compared to last year, which gave the event a different atmosphere. I went to the opening night […]
For years, news about cultural events and film festival achievements from the Middle East kept landing in my inbox, including updates from Iran, Turkey, the Arab world, and beyond. At first, I shared these updates directly with filmmakers, hoping it would inspire them to prepare for future submissions. Over time, I realized these stories mattered to a much wider audience. Over the past four months, I started testing the idea of sharing these updates more publicly. I began covering festival […]
Attending the 2025 Shanghai International Film & TV Market was much more than a regular business trip. Just a few days before the event, on Friday, June 20, Israel launched an attack on Iran, and all flights were suspended. Still, I was determined not to miss it. After traveling overland through Armenia and Georgia, I finally reached Bahrain and managed to fly to Shanghai. It was a long and difficult journey, but I arrived with focus and energy. This year […]
We are proud to announce that the documentary film Kavukî Bokan, directed by Nima Asgari and produced by Fathollah Amiri, has been officially selected for the Amsterdam Kurdish Film Festival (AKFF), taking place from 9 to 11 May 2025 in the Netherlands. Kavukî Bokan is a moving portrayal of the endangered çirgan (Great Bustard) in Kurdistan and the urgent efforts to protect its rapidly disappearing population. Filmed over five years, the documentary captures rare and powerful moments in the natural […]
