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.” […]

TEHRAN – Mohammad-Hossein Qasemi, the producer of Iran’s submission to the 2018 Oscars “Breath”, who is also the husband of the film’s director Narges Abyar, said on Wednesday that he was pleased Iran has sent a movie by a female filmmaker to the 90th Academy Awards. “Women have a greater potential for making a film […]

TEHRAN – Mona Zandi-Haqiqi, the director of the acclaimed drama “Friday Evening”, has completed a documentary about Iranian immigrants in Germany. Producer Alireza Shojanuri has submitted the 52-minute documentary “A Nibble of Sleep” to the 11th edition of the Cinema Verite, Iran’s major international festival for documentary cinema, the Documentary and Experimental Film Center announced […]

TEHRAN – The acclaimed anti-war drama “Breath” by director Narges Abyar has been selected as Iran’s submission to the 90th Academy Awards in the best foreign-language film category. A committee of nine cineastes picked the film from a shortlist of 10 films, including “The Midday Event” by Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian, “Malaria” by Parviz Shahbazi and “Subdued” […]

TEHRAN – Works by over ten Iranian calligraphers are in a collection of artworks from the calligraphers of other countries on display in an exhibition at the Skylight Gallery of the San Francisco Public Library. The international exhibition titled “Calligraphies in Conversation” has been organized to explore connections between calligraphy traditions and practices from different […]

TEHRAN – More than 40 million people were trapped as slaves last year in forced labor and forced marriages, according to the first joint effort by key anti-slavery groups to estimate the number of victims worldwide of the international crime. The International Labor Organization (ILO), human rights group Walk Free Foundation, and International Organization for […]

TEHRAN – France’s Secretary of State to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne has recently paid a visit to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA). Ambassador François Sénémaud and several other French diplomats accompanied Lemoyne on the visit, the TMCA announced in a press release on Monday. They also were able […]

TEHRAN – “Imagine Peace”, a poster by Iranian artist Alireza Danafar has been awarded the Shiva Peace Medal in the poster section of the 5th Art for Peace Festival. The medal was presented to Danafar by veteran graphic designer Qobad Shiva during a ceremony at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran on Sunday. “Imagine […]

TEHRAN – Iranian short ‘Alan’ directed by Mostafa Gandomkar won Best Kurdish Short Film Award at the 5th Duhok International Film Festival in Iraq. ‘Alan’ is a 20-minute long Iranian short film in Kurdish language about the displacement of Kurdish, Syrian and Iraqi families by war. The film is the story of a day in […]