TEHRAN – Istanbul University commemorated Mohammad-Hossein Behjat Tabrizi, the prominent contemporary Iranian poet who is known by his pseudonym Shahriar, during a symposium at the Faculty of Letters on Monday. The symposium opened with a speech by the dean of the faculty, Professor Hayati Develi who expressed his thanks to the University of Tabriz in […]

TEHRAN – Ida Panahandeh’s “Israfil” was picked as the best film at the 3rd CineIran Festival in Toronto, Canada on Sunday. The film tells the story of Behruz, who has returned to Iran after 20 years to sell his properties and meet his fiancée Sara for the first time. But attending the funeral of his […]

TEHRAN – Artist Monir Farmanfarmaian, famous for her mirror mosaics and geometric drawings, has donated a collection of 50 artworks to the University of Tehran. The collection will be placed in a special section at the Negarestan Garden Museum of the University of Tehran and will be open for viewing beginning in mid-December, UT Deputy […]

Iranian short animated piece ‘Bystander’, directed by Sheyda Kashi, will be screened at the 2017 edition of Madurai Film Festival in India. The 19th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2017 has put the Iranian short film of the list of selected films. Hosting a total of 50 films, the international event will kick […]

Born in 1805 in the western city of Sanandaj, Kordestan province, Mah Sharaf Khanoum Mastoureh Ardalan was a noble woman of her time and the first Iranian female historian. She was a Kurdish poet, historian and writer at the time when many women were illiterate and were never permitted to go to maktabkhaneh (old schools […]

TEHRAN – Iranian animated short movie ‘Unveiling Ceremony’ directed by Mehdi Boustani has been accepted to vie at VideoBabel Festival in Peru. This festival ranks thirteenth in the world and second in South America. This is the thirteenth international screening of the film and its second show in South America. The 8th edition of the […]

TEHRAN – South Korean actress Lee Young-ae has donated 50,000,000 Korean won (about $45,000) to earthquake relief efforts in Iran, where she is hugely popular. The donation was made via check handed over to Iranian Ambassador Hassan Taherian in Seoul by Korea Foundation for Persons with Disabilities Chairman Lee Seong-gyu, the Embassy of Iran in […]

Marathon is a surreal playwright which is formed by creating a no-place, no-time setting; a situation which perhaps doesn’t have objective existence and it can be said that all people have experienced it. Arash Asgari, the director and writer of the playwright says, “Usually one of the basic difficulties of playwrights is lack of content […]

TEHRAN – Iranian actor Mohammad Pursattar died due to heart failure at his home in Tehran on Thursday morning. He was 78. He mostly appeared in a number of Iranian historical, religious TV series including “The Men of Angelos” and “Prophet Joseph (AS)”, both by Farajollah Salahshur, and “Mokhtarnameh” by Davud Mirbaqeri. His funeral procession […]

TEHRAN – ‘Release from heaven’ was awarded the best animation award at Oniros film awards. ‘Release from heaven’ directed by Ali Noori Oskouei won the best animation award of the October 2017 Monthly Edition of Oniros film awards. Oniros Film Awards is a monthly and annual IMDb qualifying competition based in La Thuile, Italy, which […]