TEHRAN – The French theater company La Nef – Manufacture d’utopies and the Fanous Art and Culture House from Iran have teamed up to stage a musical play based Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar’s allegorical masterpiece “The Conference of the Birds”. La Nef – Manufacture d’utopies president Jean-Louis Heckel, and Neda Shahrokhi and Yasaman Khajei […]

Composer and kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, 54, is performing a joint concert in Tehran with the jazz music ensemble Rembrandt Trio from the Netherlands. After Kalhor completed his extensive tour ‘Veiled Dwellers of Silent Garden’ across Iran, he started a joint improvisation project with Rembrandt Trio, a jazz band founded by Dutch composer and pianist […]

After his maiden India-set project ‘Beyond the Clouds’, Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi will be back in India soon to start working on his second film set in the country. The project which is scheduled to go on floors next year, is titled ‘Gold Mine’, ndtv.com reported. The Oscar-nominated director said ‘the ambience of India’ and […]

TEHRAN – Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film “The Salesman” and Narges Abyar’s anti-war drama “Breath” led the nominations at the 19th Iran Cinema Celebration on Sunday each with ten nods. The films followed by director Hamid Nematollah’s movie “Subdued” with nine nominations are competing in several categories, including best film. Shahab Hosseini, the winner of this […]

TEHRAN – A South Korean cultural exhibition opened at Tehran’s Melal Cultural Center on Sunday. South Korean Ambassador Kim Seung-Ho and a number of Iranian cultural officials attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition titled “Korea, Close-Up”. The exhibition is displaying some photos of Korean tourist attractions, Korean food and traditional costumes, and a number […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Seyyed Moslem Tabatabai’s short animation “Light Sight” has been honored at two international film festivals in the U.S. and Italy. The 1st Sunrise 45 Film Festival, which was held in the small town of Alpena located in northeastern Michigan in the U.S. from August 18 to 20, picked the animation as […]

TEHRAN – Hossein Shamaqdari, the director of the documentary “Alberta Legacy” about the brain drain in Iran, has recently made another film that criticizes sexual liberation in Iran. “Sexual Revolution” produced at the Arman Media Cultural Institute was released online on Sunday, the Tehran-based institute announced. The documentary starts with a narrative reading “We are […]

TEHRAN – Two exhibitions, which will be organized in Tehran and Isfahan during October and November, will premiere a collection of photos of the Polish people who took refuge in the central Iranian city of Isfahan from the atrocities of the Soviets’ labor camps during World War II. This unique collection, which has never been […]

TEHRAN – A theater troupe and a Persian music ensemble from Iran will be performing at Keller Theater in Cologne during October. The performances will be held by Cologne-based Iranian director and playwright Alireza Kushk-Jalali’s troupe and Barbat Ensemble on October 5 and 6, the theater has announced. Kushk-Jalali will direct Ashkan Khatibi and Reza […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian film “Blockage” will compete in the New Current category at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in South Korea. Nine other movies will be screened in the category dedicated to promising Asian filmmakers, the organizers have announced. Directed by Mohsen Qarai, “Blockage” traces the overwhelming chaos that happens to a […]