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 […]

Japanese sculptor and painter Noriyuki Haraguchi will arrive in Tehran next week to see his work at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) and oversee its restoration.Four decades ago Haraguchi’s oil pool, titled ‘Matter and Mind,’ was installed at the TMoCA.“Matter and Mind was put up in 1977 as part of the museum’s interior design. […]

An adaptation of the play ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’, written by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca, is on at Shahrzad Theater with Roya Asadi as director.  The play centers around the events of a house during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba, aged 60, wields total control over her five daughters.The […]

Khaneh-Hekmat (house of wisdom) in Isfahan, affiliated to the municipality and tasked with organizing literary and philosophical programs, will host a critical appraisal session of the film ‘Lord of the Flies.’ Slated for October 23, the meeting is the latest of the series the house organizes regularly to debate movies with a philosophical approach, IMNA, […]