TEHRAN – Iranian actress Sadaf Asgari was named best for her role in “Disappearance” at the 1st edition of the Fiumicino Film Festival in Italy, the organizers announced on Sunday. Directed by Ali Asgari, the film is set on a cold winter night in Tehran where a couple of young lovers run into a serious […]

TEHRAN– Iranian short ‘Retouch’ directed by Kave Mazaheri will be screened in Spain’s 62nd Valladolid International Film Festival, as well as other eleven international festivals. ‘Retouch’ is slated to vie at different festivals in China, London, Germany, Chicago and Philadelphia of USA, Adelaide of Australia, Tacoma Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival and Italy’s […]

TEHRAN – The France-based Iranian scholar Leili Anvar, has been selected as the director of the 1st Persian Speakers in Europe Art Festival, the organizers announced on Tuesday. Anvar is the translator of a French version of the Masnavi-ye Manavi and Attar’s “The conference of the Birds”. Organized by the Persiana Art and Culture Association, […]

TEHRAN – “Yeva”, a co-production between Iran’s Farabi Cinema Foundation and the National Cinema Center of Armenia, premiered at the Moscow Cinema in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Saturday. Directed by Iranian-Armenian filmmaker Anahid Abad, the film tells the story of Yeva, a young woman who escapes her influential in-laws with her daughter Nareh, […]

TEHRAN – The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) is scheduled to organize an exhibition of sculptures by British sculptor Tony Cragg in late October. About 80 sculptures from Cragg’s collections will be showcased during the exhibition, which will run for three months, TMCA director Ali-Mohammad Zare’ told the Persian service of MNA on Monday. […]

TEHRAN – Five Iranian films will go on screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival running from September 28 to October 13, 2017. “Azar”, a debut film by Mohammad Hamzei, “No Date, No Signature” by Vahid Jalilvand, and Abbas Kiarostami’s last experimental work “24 Frames” will go on screen in the panorama section of the […]

The Iranian documentary ‘Madame’, directed by Narges Kharaghani, is competing at the 16th Great Lakes International Film Festival, in Pennsylvania. It is the second time the film is competing at an international festival, Mehr News Agency reported. This is the first feature documentary by Kharaghani, a filmmaker well-known for her short films, namely, ‘Screenplay’ and […]

Directed by Mahmood Karimi, ‘Ebrahim’s Dream’ is a documentary on the days Ebrahim Hatamikia, renowned Iranian director, spent on making his 2014 movie ‘Che’, cinematicket.org reported. ‘Che’, which takes its name from Mostafa Chamran’s last name initial (in Persian pronunciation), narrates two…

A painting by renowned painter Houshang Pezeshknia (1918-1972), a pioneer of modernism in Iran, has been stolen from Mahe-Mehr Art & Cultural Institute in Tehran.The 50×70 cm painting was created in the 1960’s. It is among Pezeshknia’s many works that show his preoccupation about hardworking people.Mahe-Mehr Institute has sent a picture of the painting to […]

Since the start of current fiscal year in March, over 100 travel agencies have had their licenses suspended, cancelled, or were forced to close.Ali Rafiee, deputy for tourism at the provincial office of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO), said, “since the beginning of this calendar year (March 21), 700 complaints against Tehran […]