TEHRAN – Iranian director Kazem Mollai’s drama “Kupal” was selected as best feature film at the Hamilton Film Festival, while it also brought Levon Haftvan the award for best actor, the organizers of the Canadian event announced on Sunday night. “Kupal” tells the story of a hunter and a taxidermist called “Dr. Ahmad Kupal”. On […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Vahid Jalilvand’s acclaimed drama “No Date, No Signature” won two awards at the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, the organizers announced on Sunday. The film received the Silver Alexander, the festival’s special jury award, while “Ravens” by Jens Assur from Sweden won the Golden Alexander for the best film. […]

TEHRAN – The winners of the 2nd Sheed Persian Film Festival, which was held in Dallas, Texas have been announced. “Azar” by Mohammad Hamzei was picked as the best film, while “No Date, No Signature” brought its director Vahid Jalilvand the best director award, the organizers announced on Sunday. Niki Karimi won the best actress […]

TEHRAN – A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck western Iran late on Sunday, causing relatively minor damage to several historic and heritage sites in Kermanshah and Ilam provinces. “It slightly damaged five historical sites including a Safavid-era caravanserai and a Sassanid-era fortress in the counties of Qasr-e Shirin, Sarpol-e Zahab and Dalahu in Kermanshah province while […]

A group painting exhibition ‘Memento’ is underway at Vista Gallery to pay tribute to the late entrepreneur in the field of education, Touran Mirhadi.The educator, author and researcher, Mirhadi (1927-2016) was the founder of Farhad School, a progressive kindergarten and elementary school in Tehran which was a base for pedagogical innovations. She was also the […]

Painter Farshid Maleki is holding an exhibit of his recent works at Hoor Art Gallery in Tehran.Like his previous works, the paintings encompass primitive figures of humans and animals. The event will run through November 17 and is open all days except Saturdays from 3 to 8 pm, Tiwall.com reported.   The venue is located at […]

Veteran filmmaker Bahman Farmanara’s latest movie ‘I Want To’ will have its international premiere in the ‘Authors’ section of the 32nd Argentinean International Film Festival of Mar del Plata, November 17-26. Mar del Plata is a resort city on Argentina’s Atlantic coast.The film is a story about a writer, Bahram Farzaneh, suffering from writer’s block, […]

Singer and composer Sohrab Pournazeri started his American tour by holding a concert at Palladium Musicum, Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 11. Cities of Nashville, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco and Los Angeles are his next stops.The musical selections included original compositions of the Pournazeri family interspersed with improvisation as the first part of the […]

The 8th Tehran auction is slated for January 12 but the venue has not been announced.“The auction will offer works created by contemporary Iranian artists,” ISNA quoted Ali Reza Sami-Azar, former director of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and current head of Tehran Auction house as saying.“The last edition of the auction presented both modern […]

Writer and illustrator Hoda Haddadi won the gold prize for the Best Illustrator at the 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Contest in Traverse City, Michigan, November 11.  She received the prize for her illustration of the English-language book ‘Drummer Girl’ written by Hiba Masood and published by Daybreak Press in Washington DC, Mehr News Agency reported. […]