Iranian actress Mina Sadati was named best supporting actress for her part in ‘Searing Summer’, at the Beijing International Film Festival. Actress Mina Sadati, who starred in ‘Searing Summer’, receives the Best Supporting Actress award presented by actress Shu Qi at the awarding ceremony of Tiantan Award 2018 during the 8th Beijing International Film Festival […]

TEHRAN – Persian literature aficionados and literati from across Iran came together at the mausoleum of Persian poet Sadi in Shiraz on Friday to celebrate National Sadi Day. Speaking at the ceremony, Iranian philosopher Gholamhossein Ebrahimi-Dinani called Sadi a poet unique in the power of imagination and wisdom. The director of the Center for the […]

TEHRAN – The music duo Erdal Erzincan and Kayhan Kalhor will be in Istanbul this week to perform three concerts in the Turkish city. Turkish baglama master Erzincan and world-renowned Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kalhor will give their first performance on Monday at the TBA, Kalhor has announced in a post on his Facebook page. They […]

TEHRAN – A selection of peoms from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by the Persian poet Omar Khayyam Neyshaburi (1048-1131) has been published in Hungarian. The collection, which also carries the English translation and Persian texts of the poems, has been translated under the auspices of the Embassy of Iran, the embassy reported on Thursday. […]

TEHRAN – The Swedish-speaking Finnish cineaste Jorn Donner who is most famous for his collaboration as a producer in Ingmar Bergman’s films such as “Fanny and Alexander” says that good filmmakers are able to eliminate the borders between people by means of their films that make an important impression outside their national boundaries. He made […]

TEHRAN – Iran celebrated its 120 years of national cinema history at Tehran’s Felestin Cinema on Thursday during the opening ceremony of the 36th Fajr International Film Festival. The ceremony was attended by a large number of Iranian cineastes and foreign guests as veteran actor Reza Kianian cut a cake prepared for the celebration. In […]

TEHRAN – Iranian traditional clothing embraces a variety of colors, beauty and chastity, Masoumeh Ebtekar, the vice president for women’s and family affairs, said, adding the traditional outfit can become a pattern for girl’s clothing as well as female university students. The traditional elements and effects and the variation of colors applied in traditional clothing […]

 North Korean Ambassador to Iran Gang Sam Hyun along with a diplomatic delegation visited National Library of Iran and held talks with Director of Iran’s National Library and Archives Organization (NLAO) Ashraf Boroujerdi. She welcomed North Korean ambassador for his visit to the National Library of Iran, expressing hope that this visit would pave ways […]

Iranian film ‘No Date, No Signature’ by Vahid Jalilvand, has received the Audience Award and its main actor Navid Mohammadzadeh has won the Best Actor Award at the 18th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. The 18th edition of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival started on April 6 and continued […]

TEHRAN – Several Iranian movies have received nominations at the Love International Film Festival, which was held in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles from April 7 to 16. “Immortality” by Mehdi Fardqaderi and “Temporary License” by Afshin Hashemi are competing with four others for the award for best feature film, the organizers have announced. “Limit” by […]