TEHRAN – Iranian photographer Davud Ameri has won the CEF Silver Medal at the Trofeo Gipuzkoa Internacional, an international photography salon in San Sebastian, Spain. He received the honor for his single photo “The Place I Lost My Leg”, the organizers announced on Friday. Ameri fellow photographers Mohammadreza Masumi and Saman Purkhoshamuz received honorable mentions […]

TEHRAN – Winners of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial were honored with awards in three sections of thematic, caricature, and free cartoon during a ceremony on Friday. A total of 730 works from among 4,000 cartoons were submitted to the secretariat of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial which wrapped up on December 15. […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Language Academy Award entry for 2018, Narges Abyar’s Iran-Iraq war drama ‘Breath’, did not make the Academy’s shortlist that was announced on Thursday. The Academy on Thursday announced the nine films that will compete for a nomination for the best foreign-language film Oscar. Iran’s entry, Narges Abyar’s Iran-Iraq war drama ‘Breath’, […]

TEHRAN– Winners of the 4th Navaye Khorram Music Festival, an event dedicated to child and young adult musicians, were honored at the closing ceremony in Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Dec. 15. The festival is named after Homayun Khorram, a prominent Iranian composer and violin virtuoso who died in January 2013.

Two couples from Qashqai tribe tied the knot on the sidelines of the 9th Pars Tourism Festival in the southern city of Shiraz, Fars Province.  Dressed in beautiful costumes, Qashqai men danced to their traditional music and celebrated the wedding. The Qashqai are a Turkish-speaking tribe of pastoral nomads in southern Iran. They migrate between […]

Mehrdad Oskouei’s award-winning and much admired ‘Starless Dreams’ has been screened at 24 cinemas across France. The French Cinema Center selects a number of films produced in the European country and the rest of the world to be displayed in various French cinemas during what is called ‘Month of Documentary’. Iranian director Mehrdad Oskouei’s portrait […]

TEHRAN – Termeh, a precious Iranian hand-woven cloth, fascinate everyone with its brilliant color and intricate pattern. Made from natural silk and wool fiber, Termeh is originally woven in the city of Yazd city, central Iran. The renowned Venetian explorer Marco Polo (1254–1324), has pointed to Yazd’s fine silk-weaving industry while he visited the city […]

Turkmen who live in northeastern Iran hold Aq Aash celebration for those who turn 63 in the month of Rabi’ al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was born on Rabi’ al-awwal 17 and lived 63 years, so Muslims mark the prophet’s birth anniversary in Rabi’ al-awwal and Turkmen aged 63 […]

TEHRAN – The 18th edition of Iran’s House of Music Celebration was overshadowed by criticism from Managing Director Hamidreza Nurbakhsh at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall, which hosted government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht and a number of cultural officials. He lamented the prohibition on female musicians in some Iranian cities. “Why is a woman allowed to study […]

Iranian short ‘Limit’ by Javad Daraei has won four awards at the 4th edition of 50 Fifty Reel Hallow’s Eve Challenge in Minnesota, United States. ‘Limit’ is an 8-minute narrative of the life a man in a quiet neighborhood who asks for help from people whom he is seeing, until someone suddenly enters his home. […]