‘The Tabarestanis ‘ is a documentary written and directed by Mohsen Abdolvahab, currently on screen. It is about a group of young engineers who decide to set up a steel mill in a city in Mazandaran Province, in north Iran, while many industrial units are in the process of downing shutters due to…

Iranian artworks at the Christie’s sales of ‘Middle Eastern, Modern and Contemporary Art’ and ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ fetched high prices.Held October 25, the Modern and Contemporary Art sale, which was held in London for the first time (the previous 22 rounds were in Dubai), generated $6.8 million from 44 pieces sold […]

Veteran director Ferydoun Jeirani’s latest feature film ‘Asphyxia’ is among the official selection competition line-up for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.Making its international premiere at the Estonian festival, the film tells the story of a nurse in a mental hospital who is dragged into a potential murder plot. She is forced to […]

Iranian short film ‘Alan’ written and directed by Mostafa Gandomkar won the top award at the 14th Konstanz Short Film and Theater Festival held October 21-22 in Germany.The 22-minute fiction is about Kurdish people in Syria and Iraq who lost their homes in the drawn out and bloody internal strife in the two Middle East […]

Selected cinemas in Tehran are showing ‘Leaf of Life’, a feature film directed and produced by Ebrahim Mokhtari.Saeed Pour-Samimi, Mahdi Ahmadi, Maryam Moqadam, Sajad Tabesh and Sahar Salahshour are in the cast of the film based on a story in a saffron farm, Cinematicket.org reported.“When making a documentary about farming saffron in 1990, I faced […]

The 30th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) in Japan opened October 25.  The jury for the festival’s main competition section, led by Oscar winner and American actor and filmmaker Tommy Lee Jones, 71, met the media on the red carpet on Thursday at Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills Complex, Cinematicket.org reported. Iran’s renowned screenwriter and director Reza […]

Malek National Library Museum in Tehran has organized a special event to mark its 80th anniversary.An exhibition of selected documents belonging to Iranian philanthropist Hossein Malek has been held at Malek Museum. Haj Hossein Aqa Malek (1871-1972) was the founder of Malek National Library Museum, ILNA reported.In 1908, Hossein Malek founded a big library, housing […]

One of the newly-released films in the country is ‘Foot Work’ directed by Mazdak Mir-Abedini.The social movie narrates the life of Mohammad, an actor, filmmaker, and theater instructor who has returned to Tehran after a migration that went wrong. Mohammad and his pregnant wife face difficulties in rebuilding their lives and finding a peaceful house […]

TEHRAN – The Art Bureau plans to organize a cultural competition on the theme of the Persian Gulf in response to U.S. President Donald Trump who distorted the name of the ancient gulf in his recent speech. The competition will be held in various categories, including cartoon, caricature, poetry, short story and short screenplay.

TEHRAN – The celebrated Iranian calligrapher Ali Shirazi will put a collection of his works on Ashura on display in an exhibition at the Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum in Tehran. Ashura is the tenth day of the lunar month of Muharram, upon which Imam Hussein (AS) and his companions were martyred. The exhibit […]