Two films from Iran have won international awards from festivals in Asia and America.‘No Date, No Signature’ directed by Vahid Jalilvand received an award at the Awards Night of the 53rd International Chicago Film Festival on October 20, and ‘Blockage’ by Mohsen Gharaei was awarded at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, […]

Sana Sadeghi of Iran won the first prize at ‘Looking at the Stars: the Future of the World’ international painting competition for under-six children held by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and Peace and Cooperation, at a ceremony held at the Vienna International Center, October 20.Besides Sadeghi, seven other children received […]

Graphic designer and calligrapher Kourosh Qazimorad, 48, has put his artworks on display at Art Gallery 14, a new venue in Tehran.Titled ‘White Reveries,’ the exhibit is curated by the manager of the gallery, Masoud Nader. It opened October 20 and will run through November 6. Visiting hours are 11 am to 8 pm. Mondays […]

The workshop ‘Artistic Listening to Learn’ was held under the instruction of Daniela Bassani, renowned Italian sound designer, at the 34th Tehran International Short Film Festival at Mellat Cinema Complex in Tehran, October 19. According to a press release by the festival, in the workshop she talked about the role of sound in a film, […]

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 […]

Veteran illustrator Akbar Nikanpour, 61, has presented a collection of his paintings at Saless Gallery in Tehran. Titled ‘Brightness of River’, the exhibit features a series of paintings that have also illustrative attributes. Having illustrated children’s books for decades, Nikanpour has a…

Iran’s National Orchestra performed a concert titled ‘Neynava’ at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Oct. 21.Renowned Iranian musician Hossein Alizadeh had composed the musical piece titled ‘Neynava’ in 1981, which still remains one of his best works and a valuable piece of traditional Iranian music with a religious background, Honaronline reported.Neynava or Nineveh is the historical […]

‘The Fountain’, a 2006 science-fiction written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, is to be screened at Qolhak Cineplex on Oct. 25 at 9:30 p.m..It narrates the story of a man, Tom (played by Hugh Jackman) who travels through time on a quest for immortality, to save the woman (Rachel Weisz) he loves.As a 16th-century conquistador, […]

Story writer, psychologist and sculptor Manijeh Armin, 72, has undertaken a comparative character analysis of two seminal works ‘Masnavi’ written by Persian poet and scholar Rumi (1207-1273) and ‘Divine Comedy’ by Italian poet Dante (1256-1321).Titled ‘Character Analysis on Masnavi and Divine Comedy,’ the work is being prepared for release by the Tehran-based publishing house of […]

A painting of Mona Lisa with moustache by French-American painter, sculptor and writer Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was sold for $750,000 at Sotheby’s auction in Paris on Oct. 21.The artwork was among a collection of Dadaist and surrealist paintings owned by art investigator American Arthur Brand (1870-1943) put on sale in Paris.Over a color reproduction of […]