He may have a reputation as one of cinema’s original monosyllabic tough guys, playing Django in Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 iconic Spaghetti Western of the same name, but today actor Franco Nero couldn’t be more warm and charming. And he is going to bring that warmth and charm to Iran’s Fajr Film Festival this month. Yes, […]

TEHRAN – Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter Rithy Panh, who is also the producer of Angelina Jolie’s drama “First They Killed My Father” about the experiences of a young girl whose family was torn apart by the Khmer Rouge, will receive the Peace Prize of the 36th edition of the Fajr International Film Festival. […]

Selecting a right lawyer in litigation cases is very significant, the issue of which should be taken into serious consideration. According to the website address: IranianLawyer.info, selecting a good and appropriate lawyer may be a trivial matter for many of those who read this text. But experience has proven that sometimes human being will need an […]

TEHRAN – Five cultural figures were selected to compete for the title of the Islamic Revolution Artist of the Year, the Art Bureau announced in a press release published on Saturday. The nominees are writer Hamid Hesam, painter Hassan Ruholamin, filmmaker Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian, graphic designer Mohammadreza Doostmohammadi and documentarian Mehdi Naqavian. A jury composed of […]

TEHRAN – Top Iranian dubber Bahram Zand, who was most famous for his works on the TV series “Navarro” and “The Water Margin”, died of cancer at a Tehran hospital on Saturday. He was 69. “He was suffering from cancer for several years and unfortunately, he didn’t respond well to treatment,” his colleague, Fariba Ramezanpur, told […]

The ‘Silk Road’ train carrying foreign tourists arrived in the tourist city of Isfahan in central Iran on Friday evening. According to the Director General of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Office of Isfahan Shahram Amiri said on Saturday that 68 foreign tourists from Canada, England, Australia, Denmark, Italy, Singapore, Peru and Malaysia who were […]

Majid Majidi’s ‘Beyond the Clouds’ is set to be the curtain raiser at the 36th Fajr International Film Festival on April 19. Starring Ishaan Khatter and Malavika Mohanan, ‘Beyond the Clouds’ is scheduled to premiere on April 20 in 34 territories across the world. The film will be released in over 70 screens across the Persian […]

TEHRAN – The number of visits to a Louvre exhibit at the National Museum of Iran in downtown Tehran has gone beyond expectations as over 100,000 people have visited the place since the opening date on March 5. Organizers of the event had estimated that it would attract the same number of visitors during its […]

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish-language drama ‘Everybody Knows’ on May 8. Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi gained international recognition after his 2012 drama ‘A Separation’ brought him a Golden Globe Award as well as two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. He went on to awe the world’s […]

Iranian short animation ‘Bystander’ directed by Sheyda Kashi will vie for top prizes at the 2nd International University Festival Cine-literature of Agadir (FUICLA) in Morocco. ‘Bystander’ is about an old man who is living behind a window from where he sees a dark world and remembers his past when he was an active revolutionary. The 8-minute […]