TEHRAN — “The Dark Room” by Ruhollah Hejazi from Iran has won the award for the best feature-length movie at the Hanoi Film Festival (HANIFF) in Vietnam, the organizers have announced. “The Dark Room” tells the story of a married couple named Farhad and Halleh. The award for best director went to Piotr Domalewski for […]

TEHRAN – A newly recovered Achaemenid-era (550-330 BC) bas-relief, which President Hassan Rouhani brought it back from the U.S. on September 27, has been delivered to Mashhad’s Khorasan Great Museum for a loan exhibit. On October 28, the limestone relief which depicts a Persian guard, ended up 22 days of being displayed at the National […]

TEHRAN – The history of handwoven Persian carpets and rugs will be reviewed in an educational workshop to be held at the Carpet Museum of Iran from November 5 to December 31. Participants will also be familiar with the treasure trove of carpets being kept at the museum and be earned certificates of participation, CHTN […]

“Bystander” by Iranian director Sheida Kashi has received a diploma at Saint Vladimir, an international festival of cinema and TV films with spiritual and moral content in Sevastopol, Russia. The animation received the diploma for “expanding the artistic possibilities of animation”, the organizers announced on last week. The animation tells the story of an old […]

Sergio Toffetti, president of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, is scheduled to attend a session that will be organized by the Film Museum of Iran about Italian neorealist cinema. Roberta Basano, the director of the photo archives of the Turin museum, and Italian journalist Francesca Paci will accompany Toffetti during the trip to […]

 Iranian drama ‘Life without Life’ written and directed by Kaveh Moeinfar has snatched two main awards at the Kurdish Cinema Competition of 2018 Duhok International Film Festival in Iraqi Kurdistan. ‘Life without Life’ received the special jury award for best Kurdish feature film and best Kurdish script at the 6th edition of Duhok International Film […]

A popular Iranian campaign titled “Children with Bad Parents Are Lonelier” plans to organize a photo competition on the children affected by the devastating earthquake in the Kermanshah region in western Iran last November, the organizers announced on Sunday. They asked those interested photographers to send their works to the contest until November 3. Photographers […]

Saeid Nejati, the Iranian director of the acclaimed short film “It Rains Slowly”, has been selected as a member of the jury for the fiction category at the 19th Izmir International Short Film Festival. The Romania-based Italian art director Massimiliano Nardulli will preside over the jury of the section, which also includes Romanian actress Ana […]

 Iranian director Mehrdad Ghaffarzadeh is making a love story titled “Sing Me a Love Song”, which will be a co-production between Iran and Turkey, Turkish newspaper Hürriyet announced last week. Shooting of the film starring Yusuf Çim, Afsaneh Pakru and Pejman Bazeghi has recently started in Istanbul, and parts of the movie will be filmed […]

 Iranian film ’40 Baldies’ directed by Sadegh Sadegh-Daghighi has taken part at the 33rd Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ’40 Baldies’ takes place in a small village at the foot of mountain forest in northern Iran, and follows the moving story of a teenage boy named Asghar who, together with his sister Roja and grandmother, cares for […]