The 125-minute documentary ‘Drums of War’ (Bazm-e Razm), directed by Seyed Vahid Hosseini, tells the history of music in Iran during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war in the form of interviews with 20 distinguished Iranian musicians and singers.Majid Derakhshani, Bijan Kamkar, Kambiz Roshanravan, Hesamedin Seraj and Ali Akbar Shekarchi are among the interviewees, aecinema.ir reported.The film won […]

National Cinema Center of Armenia (NCCA) and Iran’s Farabi Cinema Foundation on Monday signed a cooperation agreement in the field of cinema at the Ministry of Culture in Yerevan. The document was signed on the Armenian side by NCCA Director Shushanik Mirzakhanyan, and on the Iranian side by director of Farabi Cinema Foundation Alireza Tabesh, […]

TEHRAN – Iranian feature film, ‘Azar’, directed by Mohammad Hamzei will get screening in Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF). Produced by Niki Karimi and directed by Mohammad Hamzei, Azar has found his way to VIFF. Kicking off on September 28, Vancouver International Film Festival will screen the Iranian cinematic production in its main section. Azar is Iranian actress […]

TEHRAN – A list by IndieWire has put the performance of Iranian actress Leila Hatami in Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning drama ‘A Separation’ in its list of “The 25 Best Female Movie Performances of the 21st Century”. “Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian tale of feuding parents in the midst of a divorce and the impact on their child […]

TEHRAN – Dariush Nassiri is slated to participate in the 15th High Fest International Performing Arts Festival in Armenia with its epic ‘Rostam and Esfandiar’s War’. Directed, written and acted by Dariush Nasiri, Rostam and Esfandiar’s Warperformance is getting ready to attend the main section of the 15th High Fest International Performing Arts Festival in Armenia, […]

TEHRAN – In 2016, 335,000 Iranian graduates finished a degree in STEM, making Iran the fifth most science-educated country in the world, according to Forbes. Forbes statistics for 2016 shows that 335,000 Iranian graduates finished a degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in 2016, ranking fifth after China, India, US, and Russia as the most science-educated country in the world. China […]

TEHRAN – Iran and Mexico will open Kulturschrank, an exhibition of different cultures of the inhabitants of Braunschweig, at the House of Cultures in the German city on October 27. A variety of different cultures live together in Braunschweig and the House of Cultures would like to provide a new insight into individual cultures of […]

TEHRAN – Afghan refugee children went to school in Iran on Saturday as the Iranian students started the new school year this morning. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has issued an order three years ago stressing that all Afghan children, even children of the undocumented migrants living in the country […]

TEHRAN – The Film Museum of Iran is displaying a selection of stills from movies on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war to commemorate the anniversary of the war. Photos by seven photographers, including Mitra Mahaseni, Babak Borzuyeh, Amir-Hossein Shojaei, Habib Majidi and Hamid Jaanipur, have been selected for the collection. The weeklong exhibit showcases stills from […]

TEHRAN — Master of Persian miniature Mahmud Farshchian was honored for his lifetime achievements during a ceremony held at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Thursday. Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi called Farshchian an icon of contemporary Iranian art and said, “Farshchian blends poetry and pictures to produce his works.” […]