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Navigation

Navigation poster
Directed by
Hossein Rajabian
Genre
documentary film
Country
Iran
Runtime
43 min

How it feels

An Iranian filmmaker documents a community in the northern mountains of Semnan Province. The project faces censorship and production is halted for years before being finished.

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What happens

“Navigation” is the name of a documentary film directed by Hossein Rajabian, the Iranian filmmaker. It was produced for an anthropological NGO in the Middle East, but was never released due to censorship in Iran. Because of the strong opposition of local authorities, he had to stop the production of the documentary in 2005 and continue it after four years. Rajabian became interested in the subject of the movie while he was on one of his photographing tours in the northern mountains of Semnan Province. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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