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 […]

The much-debated Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has been renewed for a 13-episode third season.  On Wednesday morning, Netflix announced the news with a short teaser on social media. The series’ showrunner Brian Yorkey will return in the same capacity. Yorkey, along with Joy Gorman, Mandy Teefey, Kristel Laiblin, Tom McCarthy, Selena Gomez and Steve Golin, will return as […]

Iranian short ‘Reverence’ directed by Sogol Rezvani will be screened at Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which will be held in Santa Barbara, California, from Jan. 30 to Feb. 9. Making its debut at the international level, Reverence will vie for awards in a heated rivalry among some 100 films representing different countries across the […]

The jury of the 9th Ammar Popular Film Festival (APFF) announced on Thursday that no feature fiction movie deserved the best film award as they awarded “Special Award” by Seyyed Ali Seyyedi an honorable mention. “Special Award” is about a young boy who dreams of having a bicycle, but his family cannot afford his wish. […]

 Iranian artist Sorayya Mohammadi has used a number of ancient Iranian animal motifs to create her latest collection of copper embossing art. She has carried out an in-depth study on art common among the Scythians, the Eurasian nomads that inhabited large areas of the western and central Eurasian Steppe from about the 9th century BC […]

Iranian documentary ‘One Kilo of Fly Wings’ directed by Reza Sobhani is scheduled to be screened at Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh. Produced by Documentary and Experimental Film Center, ‘One Kilo of Fly Wings’ examines the problems and disadvantages of marriage conditions in Iran, such as people who have been imprisoned for being unable to […]

– A work by Israeli graphic designer Yossi Lemel has been removed from an international exhibition in Tehran of posters on the theme of drought and water shortage after the organizers discovered his real nationality. He had declared himself a Palestinian in his application for participation in the exhibit, Mohsen Soleimani, the director of the […]

Veteran artist Manuchehr Niazi who follows his own specific technique to create artworks has said that Western classical music has provided inspiration for his collections created over the past six decades. “Classical music gives me many ideas to draw,” Niazi told the Persian service of ISNA on Friday during the inauguration of his exhibition at […]

 Iranian young filmmaker Mahmud Shahbazi has recently completed a documentary named “The Sea Closed” that traces the plunder of seafood resources in the Persian Gulf by Chinese vessels over the past few years. Adel Qasemi also worked with him as an assistant director. Qasemi who is also a freelance journalist made a trip to the […]