The 37th Fajr Film Festival plans to pay tribute to legendary actor Ezzatollah Entezami by organizing a special program during the opening ceremony of the event on January 30, the organizers announced on Friday.  Entezami, the veteran actor of stage and screen, who was referred to as the “master actor” and “the honor of Iranian […]

 A celebration to mark the centenary of the establishment of Iran’s Academy of Music was held at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Wednesday. The celebration was attended by the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas Salehi and a number of veteran musicians. Speaking at the ceremony, the minister called the celebration an event which […]

The Director General of Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance for Provinces’ Affairs Ali Ghiasi Nedoushan said on Tue. that Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance will back private sector in the international markets. The ministry will follow up supporting private sector in the international markets of artistic and cultural works, he maintained. To develop […]

 Iranian actor Mehdi Mahani won Moscow Indie Film Festival’s Best Matrioshka Actor in a Leading Role award for his performance in ‘Supine’ directed by Shahram Asadzadeh. The Best Matrioshka Actor in a Leading Role award at the December edition of Moscow Indie Film Festival went to Iranian actor Mehdi Mahani for his performance in ‘Supine’, […]

 Busboys and Poets, a cultural center in Washington DC, has announced its plan to organize a poetry session on January 22, during which a group of poets will recite their poems in criticism of U.S. sanctions on Iran.  Some well-known figures in American and Iranian poetry such as Charles Bernstein, Pierre Joris and Sepideh Jodeyri […]

The Cinema Organization of Iran (COI) has postponed a Polish film festival in Tehran indefinitely in response to Poland’s decision to host a U.S.-led anti-Iran summit. The postponement was announced on Sunday by COI director Hossein Entezami on Twitter. “Iranians have warmly received various nations, especially Polish people, during hard times,” he said. “A guest […]

Three Iranian short films, including ‘The Pass’ and ‘Birthday Night’, have made it into the final round of competition at the 5th ‘Alemlere Rahmet’ – Mercy to the Universe International Short Film Competition in Turkey. ‘Birthday Night’ by Omid Shams, ‘Oblivion’ by Fatemeh Mohammadi, and ‘The Pass’ by Pouria Pishvaee and Omid Shams, have made it […]

 Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE) is compiling a national comprehensive plan to protect the seals living in the Caspian Sea. According to the news website of Department of Environment of the Islamic Republic of Iran (DOE), Parvin Farshchi, the Deputy Director of DOE’s Marine Environmental Department said on Saturday that “in cooperation with the marine […]

 The 6th Khayyam International Exhibition of Photography honored top entries during its opening ceremony on Friday. In the Open Monochrome section, Hadi Dehqanpur from Iran received the FIAP Gold Medal for his photo “Zebra” and Holger Buecker from Germany won the Kamal-ol-Molk Gold Trophy for “Above and Below”. Cheng Jungang from China won the FIAP […]

 The New York Times has included Iran in its 2019 edition of Places to Go list, noting the country takes “the top spot.” The inclusion comes among escalating tensions between Iran and the United States as Prescient Donald Trump pulled America out of the Iran nuclear deal in May 2017 and restored sanctions against the […]