“Missing” by Costa Gavras on the Second Day of the Festival

TEHRAN (AIPFF) - On the second day of AIPFF, the documentary “Missing”, directed by Costa Gavras, is going to be screened on Thursday, 25th of August in Soureh Hall of Howzeh Honari at 11 A.M.

TEHRAN (AIPFF) – On the second day of AIPFF, the documentary “Missing”, directed by Costa Gavras, is going to be screened on Thursday, 25th of August in Soureh Hall of Howzeh Honari at 11 A.M.

The film opens with Costa-Gavras’ statement that the events of the film are true. At first, When Ed arrives in the Latin American country where his son Charles Horman worked, Ed blames his son and his radical political views for his disappearance, but he is later crushed when discovering that the government he reveres so highly has been involved with his son’s disappearance and possible death as a collaborator of the dictatorship.

As a bookend of sorts to Costa-Gavras’ assertion that the events of Missing are true, the film ends with a postscript stating that after his return to the United States, Ed Horman received the body of his son Charles seven months later (making an autopsy impossible), and that a subsequent lawsuit against the US government was dismissed. It also adds that the State Department denies their involvement in the Allende coup, a position maintained to the present day.

The 3rd edition of Ammar International Popular Film Festival starts on the 24^th of August in Teheran, capital city of Iran. The date of the festival is coincided with the 63rd anniversary of the US-sponsored 1953 coup d’état against the government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq.

The mission of Ammar festival is to help the world become familiarized with the Iranian culture and promote the true image of Iran and the Iranian people.