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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]