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 […]

TEHRAN– Iranian short ‘Not Yet’ directed by Arvin Vazirdaftari has been accepted into the competition section of the 41st Portland International Film Festival in Oregon, US. ‘Not Yet’ is the story of a young girl, Hasti, studying abroad, whose middle-aged parents Skype her to wish her a happy birthday. Despite the distractions of her life […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hailed Ebrahim Hatamikia’s movie ‘Damascus Time’ as a “masterpiece”, premiered at the 36th edition Fajr Film Festival. “Today, I with my wife and a number of the deputies at the Foreign Ministry, were hosted by Mr. Ebrahim Hatamikia at Owj Arts and Media Organization, to watch the new masterpiece of […]

TEHRAN – Over 70 cultural exhibits and 30 craft workshops are underway at museums that are affiliated with the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization. Amongst the hosts are the National Museum of Iran, Sadabad Cultural-Historical Complex, and Niavaran Cultural-Historical Complex, CHTN reported on Tuesday. The scheme that also includes a variety of special meetings […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian comedy star Akbar Abdi had donned makeup to play a character in director Hossein Qana’at’s “Lasagna” that resembled U.S. President Donald Trump. However, the makeup was cancelled for the character, said Abdoallah Eskandari, the makeup artist who published Abdi’s photos on his Instagram on Tuesday. “The character was intended only to […]

TEHRAN – Top publications in various categories were honored at the 35h national edition of Iran’s Book of the Year Awards, which were presented by President Hassan Rouhani during a special ceremony at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Wednesday. In his brief speech, Rouhani said, “Thoughts can link the world of the past with the world […]

Iranian short animation ‘Alphabet’ directed by Kianoush Abedi has snatched two awards at 5th Speechless Film Festival in US and 5th Festival Sayulita in Mexico.   The 6-minute animated piece ‘Alphabet’, directed by Kianoush Abedi, narrates the story of people who have forgotten life and are separated from knowledge and truth. The animation depicts a nation […]