Directed and produced by Hossein Shahabi, ‘Conditional Release’ is showing in cinemas in Tehran and some other cities.The film seeks to portray the social problems and difficulties many prisoners have to deal with when they are released after long-term detentions, problems like finding a job.Amir Jafari, Shaghayegh Farahani, Leila Otadi, Diba Zahedi, Amir Reza Delavari, […]

The Khorramshahr wing of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization in Khuzestan Province holds today a meeting on the water drainage system at Chogha Zanbil, a UNESO World Heritage Center.The scientific ‘Analysis on Architecture and Drainage System at Chogha Zanbil’  is organized on the occasion of International Archaeology Day, October 21, according to memarnews.com, […]

The DreamWorks popular animated movie ‘Madagascar’ is being adapted for the stage.The family comedy, based on a book by Kevin Del Aguila, will be opening at Wimbledon New Theater in London on July 16, 2018, before going on a full UK tour, Digital Spy reported.It is a musical adventure that will see Alex the Lion, […]

The 34th Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) will host directors from 43 countries to screen 110 movies from October 17-22 at Mellat Cinema Complex in Tehran. According to the public relation office of the festival, the TISFF is scheduled to screen 110 short films in three categories, namely experimental, documentary and fiction films. Participating […]

Directed by Asghar Abdollahi, the movie ‘One Canary, One Crew’ is currently on the screen at several cinemas across the country.The film which casts Hengameh Qaziani and Habib Rezaei in the lead roles centers on a man who accidently fires a pistol and hits his wife’s eye.The unintentional and tragic incident brings along a long […]

Fereydoun Jeirani’s latest feature film ‘Asphyxia’ is on the screen from Wednesday.The story is about a man who takes his wife to an asylum to be taken care of as she is suffering from neurotic tensions.Navid Mohammadzadeh, Elnaz Shakerdoust, Mahaya Petrosyan, Pardis Ahmadieh, Gholamhossein Lotfi, Ehsan Amani, Asadollah Yekta and Poulad Kimiaei are in the […]

Each week the travel agency Arand Tour organizes a one-day tour to selected historical sites in downtown Tehran.Its next tour is slated for October 24, starting at 9 am from 15-Khordad Metro Station at the intersection of Khayyam and 15-Khordad streets.The station is situated a few meters south of the famed Golestan Palace, a UNESCO […]

Iranian cartoonist Saeed Sadeghi received the International Jury Members Special Prize at the 6th International Olive Cartoon Contest in Kyrenia, Cyprus, last week. “I was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci sketches of flying machines, and changed it into a peace bird”, Honaronline quoted Sadeghi as saying about his winning cartoon. Sadeghi, 43, got his bachelor’s […]

An exhibition of over 100 ancient artifacts from Armenia named ‘Iran & Armenia: Memory of a Realm,’ opened October 17 at the National Museum in Tehran.Relics on display date back to prehistoric times, from the 4th millennium BC to the first century BC.The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts […]

Spanish journalist and writer Javier Sierra has won this year’s Planeta prize for his novel ‘El Fuego Invisible’.The Spanish literary prize, which comes with an award of 601,000 euros ($700,000), is the second most valuable literary award in the world after the Nobel Prize.It has been awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Group Planeta […]