In her recent article in Variety.com, film critic Alissa Simon has pointed to the powerful cinematic productions in the Middle East which can end up among the final five nominees in the foreign language film category at the 90th Academy Awards. As she wrote, with last year’s winner, Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’, hailing from Iran, […]

Yunus Emre Institute’s office in Tehran has planned a series of meetings on old memoires and travelogues written by Iranian statesmen and literati during their stay in Turkey. The organizing institute is a non-profit Turkish cultural organization with 43 branches across the globe, established to promote Turkish language and culture. Located at No. 12, Saeedi […]

TEHRAN — Vocalist Homayun Shajarian and Purnazeri brothers have teamed up to give concerts at the Grand Hall of the Interior Ministry in Tehran in December. Composer and instrumentalist Sohrab and tar virtuoso Tahmures along with Homayun will perform a selection of songs from their latest albums. The concerts will begin on December 2 and […]

TEHRAN– Iranian short animated piece ‘Bystander’ directed by Sheyda Kashi won the best short animated movie award at the 3rd Cinemaway Film Festival in Ukraine. The short film had previously received the award for the best animated short film at the Sobytie Film Festival in Russia held on October 1-4, in three sections of theaters, short films and […]

TEHRAN – The organizers of the 32nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina have picked three Iranian films to screen during the event running from November 17th to 26th, 2017. “I Want to” by Bahman Farmanara will go on screen in the Panorama category, while ““Hell of a Wedding”, a comedy by Reza […]

TEHRAN – Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi has been invited to attend the 5th International Bosphorus (Bogazici) Film Festival taking place in Istanbul from November 17 to 26. Majidi’s latest drama “Beyond the Clouds”, which had its world premiere at the BIF London Film Festival this October, will go on screen at the festival, the organizers […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s submission to the 2018 Oscars “Breath” won two awards at the 24th Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” in Belarus, including best director and best actress awards, the organizers have announced. Narges Abyar received the Children and Youth Film Competition Special Jury Award for Best Director, and Sareh Nur-Musavi was awarded with the […]

Celebrated filmmaker Reza Dormishian’s fourth feature film ‘White Chairs’ premiered at the 41st International Sao Paulo Film Festival last week and was welcomed by the audience in all five showings.Brazilian film critic Vitor Guimaraes has written a piece on the movie in the website Observatorio Do Cinema, observatoriodocinema.bol.uol.com.br, describing it as a beautiful surprise that […]

Ian Fleming’s early manuscripts on the fictional British secret service agent James Bond are on display at Indiana University in the US.The Lilly Library at the university houses the typewritten manuscripts and first editions of Bond books, along with the author’s collection of rare books, an accomplishment he was known for in academic circles before […]

Parisa Rafi’ Mehr will perform a stage reading of ‘Death of a Salesman’, written by American playwright Arthur Miller, for seven days from November 15.Miller’s play, rendered into Persian by Ataollah Nourian, addresses loss of identity and a man’s inability to accept change within him and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, […]