TEHRAN – Three Iranian films are coming on screen at Iranian theaters to maintain the pickup experienced by their box offices during the Fajr Film Festival. The theaters eagerly arranged additional screenings by public demand during the ten-day festival, which wrapped up on Sunday. Now, they are revising their schedules to sustain the improvement. Starring […]

TEHRAN – PhotoArt Prague announced on Saturday that several Iranian photographers have won awards at the competition. Hamid Reza Helali won the IAAP (International Association of Art Photographers) Ribbon for his photo “Tow” in the Open Monochrome section. Helali also received the CFFU (Czech Federation of Art Photography) Bronze Medal for his photo “Single” in […]

TEHRAN – “Our Sunhi”, a 2013 South Korean drama film written and directed by Hong Sang-soo will be screened at the cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on Wednesday. The film will go on screen in the original language with Persian subtitles. “Our Sunhi” is about a film student who needs a letter […]

TEHRAN – Aran, a theater troupe led by Iranian director Behruz Gharibpur, is planning to perform the “Macbeth” opera puppet show in Tehran. Ferdowsi Hall will host theatergoers for the opera puppet show for 12 performances, the first of which will be staged tonight, Aran announced in a press release on Saturday. The voices of […]

TEHRAN – World-renowned Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor and Turkish baglama master Erdal Erzincan are scheduled to perform duets at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall for one week beginning on February 23. Kalhor and Erzincan, who released the joint album “The Wind” in 2006, have held several concerts together in different countries. They also gave a performance […]

TEHRAN — The 28th Annual Festival of Films from Iran running at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago is presenting a number of movies by Iranian directors working within and outside of Iran. Mohsen Qarai’s debut feature “Blockage”, “Negar” by Rambod Javan, and Abbas Kiarostami’s experimental work “24 Frames” are among the films selected […]

The winners of Iran 36th Fajr Film Festival in various categories have been announced in the closing ceremony of the event. The closing ceremony of the festival, which is Iran’s leading cinematic event, was held at Tehran’s Milad Tower on Sunday night. The event was attended by the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas […]

TEHRAN – “The Lost Strait”, a drama produced by Saeid Malekan on an epic battle by Iranian combatants during the last days of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, was crowned best at the 36th Fajr Film Festival on Sunday night. The film’s director Bahram Tavakkoli and Ebrahim Hatamikia, whose Daesh drama “At Damascus Time” premiered at […]

TEHRAN – Director Bahram Tavakkoli said that the true story depicted by his latest movie, “The Lost Strait” on Iranian combatants in an epic battle in the last days of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, is too massive to be portrayed in one film. “The events are so remarkable that no film can depict them entirely,” […]

Two short Iranian animations, ‘Maned & Macho’ and ‘Third Screenplay’ will compete at MONSTRA Lisbon Animated Film Festival, in Portugal. MONSTRA Animation Festival has always been famous in the course of its 18-year edition as a prestigious venue for young and well-known animators all over the world with the motto of “animation will neither start […]