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Beirut festival paying tribute to Abbas Kiarostami 08 Oct 2017

Beirut festival paying tribute to Abbas Kiarostami

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 […]

Artists from Iran attend symposium on sculpture in Baku 08 Oct 2017

Artists from Iran attend symposium on sculpture in Baku

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 […]

Hamilton Film Festival to screen Iranian films 08 Oct 2017

Hamilton Film Festival to screen Iranian films

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 […]

‘Pet Man’ among top 10 animations in Austria Filmfest 07 Oct 2017

‘Pet Man’ among top 10 animations in Austria Filmfest

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 […]

‘Bystander’ goes to Ukraine’s Cinemaway Filmfest 07 Oct 2017

‘Bystander’ goes to Ukraine’s Cinemaway Filmfest

TEHRAN – Iranian short animated piece ‘Bystander’ directed by Sheyda Kashi has been accepted into the screening program of 3rd Cinemaway Film Festival in Ukraine. Sheyda Kashi’s animated piece ‘Bystander’ will be screened in the third edition of the Ukrainian film festival scheduled for November 1-4, 2017, in the city of Lviv, western Ukraine. The […]

Iranian director to stage “Oliver Twist” musical in Tehran 07 Oct 2017

Iranian director to stage “Oliver Twist” musical in Tehran

TEHRAN – Iranian director Hossein Parsai will stage a musical version of “Oliver Twist” in Tehran’s Vahdat Hall in late November. The musical will be an adaptation based on “Oliver!”, a 1968 British musical drama film directed by Carol Reed, Parsai had told the Persian service of Hamshahri Online earlier. A large ensemble including 150 […]

Iranian writers welcome Nobel prize for Kazuo Ishiguro 07 Oct 2017

Iranian writers welcome Nobel prize for Kazuo Ishiguro

TEHRAN – Iranian writers are happy with the Swedish Academy’s decision to present the Nobel prize in literature to Japanese-born Briton Kazuo Ishiguro who has been introduced to Persian readers with nine of his novels. The writers spoke to some Persian news agencies, commenting on the decision and Ishiguro on Thursday just hours after the […]

Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature 05 Oct 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature

The English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”, which it said had “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. With names including Margaret Atwood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Haruki Murakami leading […]

“The Skater” receives nomination at APSA 05 Oct 2017

“The Skater” receives nomination at APSA

TEHRAN – Iranian director Fereidun Najafi’s “The Skater” received a nomination in the Best Youth Feature Film category at the 11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), the organizers announced on Wednesday. “The Skater” tells the story of a boy from Kuhrang who faces problems on his way to take a little ibex to a tribal […]

Iranian games scrubbed from IMGA nominations with no comment 04 Oct 2017

Iranian games scrubbed from IMGA nominations with no comment

TEHRAN – Iranian games were totally deleted from the shortlist of nominations for the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on Wednesday one day after the organizers announced the nominees. The IMGA has so far made no comment about its decision to eliminate all the 16 Iranian productions […]