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Directed by Amir Athar and Amir Masoud Sohaili will be world premiered as the only Iranian film in competition at Yamagata international film festival in October 2023.

Broken Whispers is a 64:00 min documentary movie in a small Christian town in Syria, the dust of war remains on it, and the silence of battle is in the streets. Milad is an old painting teacher who teaches children to make them happy with the past days’ imagination. He also finds and repairs the musical instruments that ISIS destroyed. He gives the tools to the children to take to the people and find a player. Children walk among the houses looking for the player and listening to people’s stories about the war. With each story, an instrument is played. And in the end, the music returns to the city and flows in the streets.

In this year of YIDFF this film will compete with other movies from France, Egypt, South Korea, Myanmar, Lebanon, Japan, Syria, Estonia, China, Philippines, Taiwan, Portugal, Hungary, USA and India in New Asian Currents official competition.

The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival is a documentary film festival held biennially in Yamagata, Japan.

It was first held in October 1989, which makes it one of the longest- running documentary film festivals in the world and the most distinguished such festival in Asia. Its emphasis is on showcasing the best achievements in documentary filmmaking, as well as promoting and popularizing the genre and documentary filmmaking in the region.

The festival was most recently held in October 2007. 1,633 films from 109 countries were submitted, with 238 films screened as part of the international and regional competitions. The festival attracted an audience of around 23,000 people.[1] Since 2001, the competition includes films shot in DV. In 1991, a Young Asian Talents section was established.