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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

TEHRAN – Four Iranian films will be screened at the 25th Filmfest Hamburg running from October 5 to 14, the organizers have announced. Abbas Kiarostami’s last experimental work “24 Frames”, Parviz Shahbazi’s “Malaria”, Mohammad Rasoulof’s “A Man of Integrity” and Vahid Jalilvand’s “No Date, No Signature” will go on screen in the Kaleidoscope section. Screening […]

TEHRAN – “Gamichi”, Iranian director Majid Esmaeili’s a film on Lake Urmia and its environmental crisis, is competing in the official section of the 40th Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers, which is underway in Frankfurt, Germany. The film is about a young boy, Hassan, who lives near Lake Urmia with his family. The […]