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Brazil welcomes three-day Iranian film showcase
The event, staged from November 13 to 15 in a Brasilia cultural complex, features four Iranian works, ‘Sweet Taste of Imagination,’ ‘In the Arms of the Tree,’ ‘Fragrant’ and the animation ‘Loupetoo,’ all subtitled in Portuguese.
The program folds environmental, social and animated storytelling into what organizers describe as a compact survey of contemporary Iranian filmmaking.
Speaking at the opening ceremony attended by foreign envoys, Brazilian cultural authorities and Iran-watchers, Iran’s Ambassador to Brazil, Abdollah Nekounam framed the 123-year diplomatic relationship between Tehran and Brasília as a “long-standing friendship”.
He argued that cinema, like other performing arts, has become a shared medium through which nations “speak beyond race, borders and politics”.
He said Iranian cinema, much like the country’s visual and performing arts, is rooted in a “thousand-year-old cultural heritage” and remains committed to portraying “respect for human dignity”, alongside ideals of freedom, justice and spirituality.
The ambassador also pointed to Iranian filmmakers’ recurring concern for “the rights of all living beings” and nature.
Curators leaned into that environmental thread on the opening night, screening ‘Sweet Taste of Imagination’, a feature with strong ecological motifs, to echo the timing of COP30-related climate discussions under way in Brazil’s Amazon region. Festival guests said the overlap “struck a chord”, giving the film added resonance.
Screenings run daily through November 15, with organizers billing the showcase as a cultural bridge for Brazilian audiences keen to probe Iranian narratives at close quarters.