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, […]

A hush fell over a packed Christie’s salesroom October 6 at its ‘Post-War and Contemporary’ sale in London as its star lot ‘Study of Red Pope,’ a 1962 work by Irish-born British figurative painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) failed to elicit a bid. It had been estimated that it could fetch £60 million ($78.4m).“People were in the room who […]

A solo exhibition of sketch art by visual artist Mohammad-Ali Keyhani is underway at Kabiri Art Galleryin north Tehran.  Titled ‘Lines of Life,’ the exhibit features a collection of drawings with emphasis on lines, hatching and cross-hatching, Galleryinfo.ir reported. “A drawing is very much like a life; big and small lines together form an image. […]

Iranian animation ‘We’ directed by Fatemeh Fadaei-Darestani is to go on screen at the 8th edition of the Women, Innovation and Technology, United Nations and Diversity (W.I.N.D) Film Festival in Hollywood, Los Angeles, October 20-22.The 3-minute short animated film, made in 2015, tells the story of two sisters who are trapped under rubbles and are […]

Painter and sketch artist Sima Eftekhari-Rad has set up a solo exhibition of her latest paintings at Dargoun Art Gallery. On display are the latest paintings of the artist with subjects oscillating between fact and fiction, Tiwall.com reported. Titled ‘Whispers of the Night,’ the exhibition opened October 6 and will run through October 17. The […]