The 37th Fajr Film Festival, Iran’s major cinematic event, named winners during a closing ceremony on Mon. evening, with Narges Abyar’s ‘Night of the Full Moon’ winning as many as six main awards. Fajr Film Festival is the most important, most anticipated and longest-running cinematic event of Iran, which was founded in 1983 and is […]

Iranian short ‘I Love You’ directed by Babak Habibifard has made it into the competition section of 19th Lebu International Film Festival in Chile. ‘I Love You’ is a 12-minute short film about a lonely man who hears strange noises and goes to investigate where they are coming from. The short film has been accepted into […]

 The 37th Fajr Film Festival has premiered director Narges Abyar’s latest drama “The Night When the Moon Was Full” about a true love story of Abdul-Hamid Rigi, a member of the Jundallah terrorist group. The film tells the story of Abdul-Hamid Rigi, the younger brother of Abdul-Malik Rigi, the founder and leader of the Jundallah […]

 Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation in association with Culture House of the Islamic republic of Iran, Mumbai are organising Iranian film festival at Alliance Française of Madras from 11 to 13 February. Here is a quick look at the films that will be screened: I am Taraneh, I am fifteen years old Fifteen-year-old Taraneh, whose widowed […]

TEHRAN – On the third day of the Ten-Day-Dawn festivities, the Revolution School Exhibitions began their works in high-schools nationwide. IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK In a ceremony which was held in a school in Tehran, the exhibitions were officially inaugurated nationwide. During the inaugural ceremony in Tehran, deputy education minister on cultural and educational affairs […]

 The Iranian film ‘The Fog’ directed by Ali Shoorvarzi has won the Best Short and Best Actress awards at the 3rd Rosarito International Film Festival in the United States. ‘The Fog’ is a story about a woman a woman working at funeral parlor who has not prepared any dead body after her child’s death and […]

Reza Mirkarimi, the producer of director Kamal Tabrizi’s comedy film “We Are All Together”, denied on Friday online reports alleging the project has helped certain people to launder money. “The reports are being published by those who have dominated Iranian cinema by their flops and when they see their interests under threat from new successful […]

 Iranian short ‘Pedovore’ directed by Mohammad Kart will have its first international screening at the 49th Tampere Film Festival in Finland. ‘Pedovore’ directed by Mohammad Kart will vie at the international competition section of the 49th Tampere Film Festival in Finland. “Nobody takes the feeling of love in children seriously, but in the world that is like […]

 The 37th edition of the Fajr Film Festival premiered “Gholamreza Takhti”, a movie about the life story of Iranian Olympic gold-medalist wrestler Gholamreza Takhti whose manly virtue and social activities during the 1960s made him a national hero. Takhti was found dead at a hotel room in Tehran in 1968 and the Persian dailies Kayhan […]

 A Persian leopard will undergo artificial insemination in Tehran Zoological Garden next week, done for the first time in the country. “We have a Persian leopard that unfortunately has lost one hand in a hunting trap in Golestan province, and the Tehran Zoological Garden has taken care of this very unrivaled leopard since then,” Chief vet […]