TEHRAN – German cinematographer and producer Thomas Mauch will attend the 36th Fajr International Film Festival to hold workshops, the organizers announced on Friday. With a career that spans over fifty years in both film and television, Mauch has collaborated with numerous top filmmakers such as Werner Herzog, Edgar Reitz, and Alexander Kluge. The workshops […]

Today’s communication technology provides an environment where users can share their thoughts and works of art either instantaneously or retrospectively. This environment, called social media, alongside being entirely virtual and user-based, adds a different dimension to interaction by bringing the masses together. Both scientific research and personal observations indicate that day by day users spend […]

TEHRAN – The Switzerland-based Iranian filmmaker Majid Movasseghi has been selected as a member of a jury for the Visions du Reel International Film Festival in Switzerland, the organizers have announced. He will judge the films in the Interreligious section of the festival, which will be held in the Swiss city on Nyon from April […]

 At the official invitation of Italian conductor of “Emilia-Romagna” orchestra, a number of musicians fromIranian National Orchestra will travel to Italy to take part in special performance of this magnificent orchestra. Given the above issue, conductor of orchestra “Emilia-Romagna” invited three prominent violin virtuosi and conductor of Iranian National Orchestra to attend Orchestra’s performance in […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran will celebrate Noruz, the Iranian New Year, with its spring festival opening on March 22, the second day of Noruz. Entitled “Tehran, City of Art”, the festival will organize exhibitions of paintings, photos, graphic designs, illustrations and handmade ceramic works at all the galleries of the center. […]

TEHRAN — Two Iranian animated films will be competing in the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which will run in the French city from June 11 to 16. “Run, Rustam, Run” by Hossein Molayemi will be competing in the perspective short films category, and “Mr. Deer” by Mojtaba Musavi is an entry in the short […]

TEHRAN — Some 110 hectares of gardens have been destroyed in the capital Tehran over the past three years, Tehran’s Deputy Mayor Hojjat Mirzaei said on Friday. For fourteen years builders were legally authorized to construct towering buildings in gardens on condition that the buildings only covered 30 percent of the gardens, however, in reality […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s cultural heritage body pursues possible inscription of cross-country railways, which includes arrays of bridges, stations and other historical monuments, on the UNESCO World Heritage list by 2019. Last year, the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization in close collaboration with the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways submitted to UNESCO a preliminary dossier […]

TEHRAN – The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art plans to restore two bronze statues by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. Acid rain has caused damage to “Walking Man 1” and “Standing Woman 1”, which are located in the courtyard of the museum, TMCA director Ali-Mohammad Zare’ told the Persian service of IRNA on Tuesday The statues […]

TEHRAN– Idea of the ‘Iranian House’ with the message ‘the applicability of handicrafts to everyday life’ will be presented in the 8th International Exhibition of Midex. In this exhibition, the basics of interior design are introduced using artistic handiwork with a focus on the applicable aspect of handicrafts in everyday life in order to propagate the discourse of […]