TEHRAN – “The Servant”, the acclaimed short animation by Iranian director Farnush Abedi, has scored another triumph by winning the award for best animated film at the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival in San Diego, California, the organizers announced. The film is about a servant who becomes a master and a bug becomes his servant. After […]

TEHRAN – A committee of nine cineastes is evaluating a shortlist of 10 films to select Iran’s submission to the 90th Academy Awards for the best foreign-language film category. Directors Sirus Alvand, Mohammad Bozorgnia, Kamal Tabrizi and Rasul Sadr-Ameli, actor Reza Kianian and musician Majid Entezami are among the members of the committee selected by […]

TEHRAN–’21 Days Later’, a feature film directed by Mohammad Reza Kheradmandan and produced by Soureh Cinema will compete in the 11th edition of Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia. ’21 Days Later’ is a melodrama which revolves around the life of a teenager named Morteza who is faced with many challenges on his way to […]

TEHRAN – The secretary of the 6th International Green Film Festival, Farhad Tohidi, jazzed up the closing ceremony of the event on Friday evening by his satirical remarks mocking those private and public commercial organizations over their unwillingness to take part in environmental movements. He also chided governmental personalities over their disregard of the festival, […]

TEHRAN – Twelve troupes from Iran will be in Yerevan, Armenia during October to attend the 15th High Fest International Performing Arts Festival. Director Reza Rafinasab’s group will perform “Chaos” and Puria Qolipur’s troupe is scheduled to stage “House of War” at the festival, which will be held from October 1 to 10, Albert Beigjani, […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Narges Abyar’s acclaimed anti-war drama “Breath” will go on screen at the 24th Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan during October. The film is about four children whose mother had died a few years earlier and their father decides to join the Iranian volunteers on the warfront following Iraq’s […]

TEHRAN – ‘Kupal’, a feature film directed by Kazem Mollaie, will be screened as the only Asian representative in the 34th edition of Bogota International Film Festival in Colombia. Bogota International Film Festival is one of the most renowned competitive festivals in South America, launched in 1984 and held every October in Bogota, the Capital of […]

TEHRAN – Groups of South Korea percussionists and acrobats are scheduled to give some open-air performances in the courtyard of Tehran’s Milad Tower today. The groups will stage performances of pungmul nori (Korean traditional percussion instruments playing), sangmo nori (spinning streamer hat performance) and beona nori (spinning hoops and dishes) during a program, which will […]

TEHRAN – “Mississippi Dies Seated” based on Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play “The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi” was named best play of the year at the 16th Celebration of Iran Critic and Theatrical Writers Society on Thursday. Director/writer Homayun Ghanizadeh received his award from the celebrated filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad during the celebration, which was held […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Levon Haftvan will perform Irish writer Brian Friel’s “The Yalta Game” at the Fairview Library Theater in Toronto, Canada on Friday. The play will be produced by Haftvan’s Lemaz Productions and Artists Management in Canada. “The Yalta Game” is based on Anton Chekhov’s 1899 story “The Lady with the Lapdog”. It […]