Iranian filmmaker Vahid Mousaian is coming to the 11th ‘Cinema Verite’ with his new documentary ‘The Symphony of Iran’. In the documentary Fereydoun Shahbazian, famous musician, composer and current leader of Iran National Orchestra goes on a journey to find the roots of Iranian traditional and Mugham music, IRNA reported. It took Mousaian nine years […]

TEHRAN — Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Ehsani’s documentary “Once Hamoun” has received an honorable mention at the Cine’Eco, an international environmental film festival in Portugal. “Once Hamoun” was screened in the short film competition, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Sunday. The documentary reviews the numerous environmental and social problems caused by the shrinkage of […]

TEHRAN – Poster designer Taha Zaker told Mehr News that the film poster for American Sci-Fi ‘Flatliners’ bears a strong resemblance to Iranian film ‘Boarding Pass’, adding he will file a complaint against Sony Pictures if the plagiarism is proved. Speaking to Mehr News correspondent on Sunday following speculations about the resemblance of his poster […]

TEHRAN – Winners at the 2nd Sheed Persian Film Festival will be presented with a CloseUp Award this year in memory of the legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. The award, which has been named after Kiarostami’s 1990 masterwork “Close-Up”, will be presented to the best film, best director and best actor and actress. The festival, […]

TEHRAN – “Blockage” by Mohsen Qarai from Iran and “After My Death” by Kim Uiseok from South Korea shared the best film award in the New Currents category at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, Variety reported on Friday. “Blockage” traces the overwhelming chaos that happens to a vicious, despicable man who […]

TEHRAN– Iranian drama ‘No Date, No Signature’ directed by Vahid Jalilvand has won the Grand Prize of 2017 Chicago International Film Festival. Winners of the 2017 edition of Chicago International Film Festival were announced on Friday evening with Vahid Jalilvand’s No Date, No Signaturewinning the Hold Hugo, the festival’s grand prize for the best film. The […]

TEHRAN– Iranian feature ‘Kupal’, directed by Kazem Mollaei, will be screened in the 26th Berkeley International Film Festival and the 5th edition of Portland Film Festival. Following its continued international screenings, ‘Kupal’ will be showcased in the main competition section of two American festivals as Iran’s sole representative. Kazem Mollaei’s debut feature ‘Kupal’ narrates the […]

TEHRAN – “The Rock”, a documentary by Hamid Jafari from Iran, has received the best short documentary award at the 2017 New Orleans Film Festival, the organizers have announced. The film is about a woman in southern Iran who goes to the mountain by the village every day, breaks up rocks, puts the stones on […]

Tehran Theater Campus is hosting the play ‘Majnoun’ (someone deeply in love) directed by Omid Yarandi.Written by Somayeh Najafi-Khatouni, it narrates the story of Mahdi, a former POW of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, who now passes his time in a mental asylum. He is about to be released when an old comrade of his commits […]

Directed by Iranian theater director Bahram Barkhordari, the play ‘Twelve Angry Men’ is on now at Mashayekhi Theater Hall.An adaptation of a namesake play written by Reginald Rose (1920-2002), American film and television writer, it is about a 12-member jury who meet in an unknown place to discuss the case of an 18-year-old boy charged […]