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 […]

TEHRAN – The acclaimed Iranian short film “Animal” co-directed by filmmakers Bahram and Bahman Ark received the Liberty Global International Student Filmmaker Award at the 40th Denver Film Festival on Sunday. The film tells the story of a man who attempts to cross a frontier disguised as a ram. Iranian films “Disappearance” by Ali Asgari […]

The short fiction ‘Gaze’ by filmmaker Farnoosh Samadi has won the Audience Award at the 36th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, October 23-29, in Sweden. The 15-minute film is about a woman who witnesses something happening in a bus on her way back from work. She has to decide whether to reveal it or not, […]

A collection of deformed and bloated faces and heads belonging to a strange race of creatures are the subjects of an upcoming painting exhibit by painter, graphic designer, photographer and animator Nasim Davari, 36. Aaran Art Gallery in Tehran will host the exhibit ‘Head,’ from Friday, in which the denizens of a strange land are […]

Iranian feature ‘Kupal’ directed by Kazem Mollaie will be screened at the 46th edition of Belgrade International Film Festival. ‘Kupal’ narrates the story of a hunter and taxidermist who goes through an unfortunate incident by trapping himself in his basement with little food and no water, having to survive by using creative and desperate means. […]

TEHRAN – Majid Majidi, the director of the acclaimed movie “Muhammad, the Messenger of God”, has praised his fellow director Bahram Tavakkoli for the accurate depiction of a true tragedy from the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war in his latest movie, “The Lost Strait”. “I praise Tavakkoli’s honesty. He was not in the war, but has depicted […]

TEHRAN – An exhibition opened at the Iran Photographers House in Tehran on Monday displaying rarely seen photos of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. A total of 65 photos by Qasem Haj-Mohammadi who worked for the Persian daily Ettela’at in 1979 has been selected for the exhibition entitled “Season of Awakening”, the organizers announced on Tuesday. […]

TEHRAN – “Nobody’s Daughter Haewon”, 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 this afternoon. The film will go on screen in the original language with Persian subtitles. The narrative chronicles a few days in the life of […]