TEHRAN – Iran’s Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas Salehi and Armenia’s Minister of Culture Armen Amirian met in Tehran on Tuesday to discuss the expansion of art and cultural relations. Salehi pointed to the high potential of Iranian artists in different arena including cinema, music and theater, and stressed that art and […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Parastu Kardgar’s animated movie “Icky” has been selected as the best animation at the 16th edition of the Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Arte. The film is about a kid, who lives in a world of people with a Rubik’s cube head and is different from the others. Iranian short film “The […]

TEHRAN – “Limit” by Javad Darai was selected as best foreign short film at the International Hollywood Hills Awards, the organizers announced on Sunday. The short film highlights the problems that the disabled face in the society. Based in the Hollywood Hills, the festival rewards outstanding filmmakers who not only write their stories but also […]

TEHRAN – Japanese artist Noriyuki Haraguchi, whose Oil Pool sculpture is installed at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), will be visiting Tehran this week to restore his sculpture, TMCA has announced. Haraguchi executed his first Oil Pool sculpture in 1971. A later version was exhibited to great acclaim at “Documenta 6” in the […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Karim Lakzadeh’s “A Girl in the Room” was selected as best short at the Beirut International Film Festival, the organizers announced on Thursday. The film is about an elderly man and his friends at a guesthouse, in which they are preparing to welcome the man’s daughter who is coming to visit […]

TEHRAN – Raz Media Group, affiliated with the Qom Seminary, has produced two documentaries on ISIS and the shoddy Chinese cosmetics increasingly smuggled into Iran. Co-directed by Emran Cheraghi and Mehdi Keshtkar, “Chinese Skin” puts its spotlight on the shoddy Chinese cosmetics and toiletries that are illegally imported into Iran. The film also focuses on […]

TEHRAN – Prominent Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s 1950 drama “The Munekata Sisters” will go on screen at the cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art at 5 p.m. on Sunday. The film is about Setsuko, who is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit, but she is […]

‘Whispers Behind the Frontline’ a play written by celebrated director and playwright Alireza Naderi and directed by Ashkan Kheilnejad is being restaged after five years at Shahrzad Theater in Tehran.A mix of comedy, drama and tragedy, it is about eight soldiers during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war at the time of the ceasefire.The cast includes Navid […]

A bronze bust of Iranian Olympic gold-medal wrestler Gholam-Reza Takhti (1930-1968) was unveiled on October 4 at the American Sport Art Museum & Archives (ASAMA) in the city of Daphne, Alabama, the US.The North American Iranian Friendship Society (NAIFS) presented ASAMA a bronze sculpture of the late legendary wrestler and national hero at a special […]

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 was awarded to ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.Through binding international agreements, […]