Festival INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL APRES VARAN”“is a plateforme of exchange


Our Festival INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL APRES VARAN”“is a plateforme of exchange and collaboration. It is our 6th edition. Each year we have programmed more than 60 hours of screening and debate , all our recorded and on line on our site. Each year we have organzied a round table between filmmaker and producer at SCAM, the house that defend the right of the authors. Each year we did more more netwroking. We hope that in the coming years, we can play more important role and help each other to find the right place in the international documentary stage.


A propos de Mina Rad

Mina Rad, filmmaker and producer has made the films about anthropologist and great film-makers : Jean Rouch (France), Pierre Perrault (Canada)and Renato Athias ( Brésil). She is the founder of Apresvaran, an alumni association of Ateliers Varan and director of the International Apresvaran Documentary Film Festival in Paris. "The Hupd’äh Enchanted Words of the Amazon - Masters of knowledge, narrated by Renato Athias", 52', 2020, "The future of the past, Pierre and Yolande Perrault", 61’, 2019, "Persian Tales, Jean Rouch in Iran", 57’, 2018, “Jean Rouch Persian look”, 52’, 2017. In 2012 her first film,made during Atelier Varan training, entitled “For me the sun never sets” was awarded the Best Documentary Film at Verity Festival in Iran, and the jury mentioned, “For the warmth and simplicity to tell a profound story.”

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