TEHRAN – Iranian director Homayun Shahnavaz who was mostly renowned for “Braves of Tangestan”, a popular TV series on the armed uprising of people in southern Iran against the British forces during World War I, died at Tehran’s Motahhari Hospital on Wednesday from injuries he suffered in a fire at his home. He died shortly […]

TEHRAN – “A Woman without a Name”, an Iranian documentary by Farzad Khoshdast, will be competing in the Copenhagen Film Festival (CPH:DOX) running in the Danish capital from March 16 to 26, the organizers have announced. The documentary centers on four young women who share their thoughts from behind the bars at a prison for […]

TEHRAN — The 36th Fajr International Film Festival is scheduled to review Georgian cinema in a special program, which will screen films from the country. A collection of six films will be screened in the program “Retrospective of Georgian Cinema”. Among the films is well-known Georgian director George Ovashvili’s “Khibula” that depicts the final days […]

Artworks of five Iranian artists will take part in the international contemporary art fair ‘Artankara’ in Turkish capital Ankara on March 15-18. Iranian Farda Art Gallery has already played host to the works of those Iranian young artists. The artworks including paintings and sculptures by five young Iranian artists Nezar Mousavinia, Ahmad Tak, Maryam Moghdam, Kaveh […]

Persian Gabbeh is a hand-knotted (handmade) thick Persian rug with long pile. It is made by the nomads of Fars province in southern Iran, of which the famous city of Shiraz is the capital. The most famous nomad group of this region is the Qashqai Tribe. Although the existing few old pieces of Gabbeh rugs […]

TEHRAN – Teetovak and Barane Zagros, two theater troupes from Iran, will mix William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” with the Zar rite, commonplace in southern Iran, for a performance in Moscow. “Macbeth Zar” will be staged by director Ebrahim Poshtkuhi at GITIS – the Russian Institute of Theater Arts on March 27, which is World Theatre Day, […]

Iranian short animation ‘Bystander’ directed by Sheyda Kashi has been accepted into the main competition section of the 1st Oregon Cinema Arts Film Festival in US. ‘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. […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian movies “Maned & Macho” by Shiva Sadeq-Asadi and “The Distance” by Yusef Kargar will compete in the 35th Busan International Short Film Festival, which will run in the South Korean city from April 24 to 29. “Maned and Macho” is about a girl’s repressed emotions and instincts, which are embodied in […]

TEHRAN — The German electronic music band Schiller plans to perform “Berlin-Tehran” in its repertoire arranged for the Tehran concerts opening tomorrow, composer Christopher von Deylen said during a press conference in Tehran on Saturday. Iranian rhythms characterize the piece, but no Iranian instruments will be used in the performances, Von Deylen stated. Schiller will […]

Iranian film ‘Cold Breath’ by Abbas Raziji will be screened in the competition section of the 15th Hong Kong Salento International Film Festival (HKSIFF). Each year, the Salento International Film Festival, founded in 2004 in south Italy, presents the “Best of the Fest” films to international destinations like Zurich, London, Hong Kong, New York, Santiago del […]