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 […]

 The Art Bureau is organizing art exhibitions in Iranian cities near the border between Iran and Iraq for the Arbaeen pilgrims. Artworks on the theme of the fight against global arrogance have been selected for the exhibitions underway in Mehran, Chazzabeh and Shalamcheh, the director of the Art Bureau’s Visual Arts Office, Masud Shojaei-Tabatabai, announced […]

 “Hyrcanians, Eternally Green”, an exhibition of photos of the Hyrcanian Forest in northern Iran, opened at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Historical Complex on Monday. The exhibition is being co-organized by the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) and the Iranian Youth Cinema Society to promote the ecoregion that is seeking registration on the UNESCO World […]

 The Iranian films “Sheeple” and “Kejal” will be competing in the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival running in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn from November 16 to December 2, the organizers have announced. “Sheeple” by Hooman Seyyedi will be screened in the official competition, while Nima Yar’s debut “Kejal” will go on screen in […]

Iranian comedy ‘Katyusha’ directed by Ali Atshani, in its first international screening, received an honorable mention at the Crossover Film Festival in Virginia, US. ‘Katyusha’ narrates the story of Khalil, known as Khalil Katyusha, who is a religious guy and member of Basij and is forced to spend couple of days with Arshia the lousy rich […]

 “Jackal” by Iranian playwright Sajjad Qatei, about the serious repercussions a rough childhood causes for the remainder of a child’s life, will go on stage at Tehran’s Divare Chaharom Theater tomorrow. “Jackal” tells the story of a young man who begins to take revenge on society as a result of his unhappy, deprived childhood. “At […]

 The plan to loan a collection of Western art from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) for a show at Berlin’s National Gallery was discussed once again in a meeting held on Sunday between German Ambassador Michael Klor-Berchtold and Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Abbas Salehi, the culture ministry announced. “A […]