TEHRAN – Two Iranian films have won awards at the Zero Plus International Film Festival in Russia. “Chocolate” by director Mehdi Heidari received the award for best film in the short fiction film category, the organizers have announced. “The Mystery of Persian Carpets” (“Suzangerd”) by Masumeh Nurmohammadi won the special prize in the popular scientific […]

TEHRAN – Italian art historian and critic Eleonora Frattarolo is scheduled to make a speech on the Pictorial Alphabet by Italian painter and interior designer Antonio Basoli (1774–1848) in Tehran tomorrow. Organized by the Tehran University of Art, the session will be held at the Malek National Library and Museum Institution. Basoli published a fantastic […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Zahra Sabri is displaying puppets of her plays the Theater Museum of the Grand Theater – National Opera in Warsaw. This showcase titled “Cosmos” is part of the 12th Puppet Is a Human Too International Festival of Puppet Theater and Film Animation for Adults, which opened in the Polish capital on […]

TEHRAN – “Pet Man” by Iranian director Marzieh Abrarpaidar has won the Best Animation of Character Award at the 10th Canterbury Anifest in England, the organizers have announced. The 2D animation is the story of an animal dealer who falls asleep in his shop and has a nightmare in which he finds himself caught in […]

TEHRAN – The 1st edition of the Guwahati International Film Festival (GIFF) plans to review Iranian cinema in a special section titled “Contemporary Iranian Cinema”, the Telegraph India reported on Friday. Movies such as “Parting”, a joint production of Iran and Afghanistan by Navid Mahmudi, and “Valderama” by Abbas Amini have been selected for the […]

TEHRAN – “Gamichi”, Iranian director Majid Esmaeili’s film on Lake Urmia and its environmental crisis, received the Award for an Outstanding Cinematic Achievement at the 40th Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers in Frankfurt, the organizers announced on Saturday. The film is about a young boy, Hassan, who lives near Lake Urmia with his […]

TEHRAN – The Beirut International Film Festival (BIFF) is commemorating the legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami by screening some of his films, including “Take Me Home”, “Where Is the Friend’s Home”, “24 Frames” and “A Taste of Cherry”. “76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami”, which is a montage film made by Kiarostami’s close […]

TEHRAN – Iranian sculptors Morteza Shabani and Ali Cheraghi are in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to participate in the 2nd International Symposium of Sculpture – the Song in the Stone. “The subject of my sculpture is a mihrab of a mosque,” Shabani told the Persian service of IRNA on Friday. “I intend to introduce […]

TEHRAN – Eight Iranian films will be screened at the Hamilton Film Festival in Canada during November, the organizers have announced. Kazem Mollai’s drama “Kupal” will go on screen in the feature section and Ali Nikfar’s “Kayyam Khani” has been selected for the music film section. “Numbness” by Milad Jarmuz will be screened in the […]

TEHRAN– Iranian animated short ‘Pet Man’, directed by Marzieh Abrar Paidar, made it to the list of top 10 animations by Innsbruck Nature Film Festival. The 16th edition of international film competition on nature and environment will run through October 10 to 13 in Austria. ‘Pet Man’ by Marzieh Abrar Paidar will be screened as […]