Iranian actor Vahid Raad used a photocall for his latest movie “As I Lay Dying” at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on Thursday to convey an anti-war message to U.S. President Donald Trump. During the photocall, Raad showed his palm bearing an inscription in English reading, “I don’t have a gun in my hand […]

 The 24th edition of the L’Étrange Festival, which opened at the Forum des images in Paris on Wednesday, plans to review two latest films by Iranian director Shahram Mokri. “Fish & Cat”, which is about restaurant owners who lurk around a student assembly holding a kite competition near a lake during the winter solstice, will […]

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York plans to review three decades of cinematography by Iran’s Mahmud Kalari in a program titled “The Eye of Iran: Cinematographer Mahmud Kalari”. The program, which will begin on September 14, will screen a number of movies shot by Kalari, a cinematographer who has made great efforts […]

 In a Wednesday meeting with Iranian officials in Tehran, Singapore’s ambassador to Iran called for increasing bilateral cooperation in the domain of museums. A meeting was held in Tehran-based National Museum of Iran with non-resident Singapore’s ambassador Ong Keng Yong, deputy head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and Tourism Organization (ICHTO) Mohammad Hassan Talebian, Iranian […]

 Several Iranian films will be competing in the different sections of the 23rd Busan International Film Festival, which will be held in the South Korean city from October 4 to 13. “Gold Carrier” by Turaj Aslani will be competing in New Currents, a section dedicated to promising Asian filmmakers, the organizers have announced. Movies from […]

 Iranian fiction-feature ‘Orange Days’ directed by Arash Lahooti has been accepted into the screening program of 19th Calgary International Film Festival in Canada. Iranian fiction-feature ‘Orange Days’ will take part in the competition section of the 19th edition of Calgary International Film Festival in Canada to enjoy its second international screening, after premiering at the 43rd Toronto […]

 Iranian animator Ashkan Rahgozar’s “The Last Fiction” will be competing in the 20th Bucheon International Animation Film Festival in the South Korean city during October. The movie is based on a story from the Shahnameh, the epic masterpiece of the Persian poet Ferdowsi. It is about Zahak’s treacherous rise to the throne in Jamshid in […]

 The U.S.-based Iranian scholar Ehsan Yarshater who spent all his life creating his magnum opus, Encyclopedia Iranica, a complete encyclopedia of Iranian culture and history, passed away on Saturday, a number of his fellow colleagues announced in posts published on social networks. He was also a professor and the founder of the Center for Iranian […]

 “October 13, 1937”, a documentary on Iranian-Armenian maestro Loris Tjeknavorian, has been released by Hashure, an Iranian video streaming website for documentary films. The website premiered “October 13, 1937” directed by Baktash Abtin at the Film Museum of Iran on Saturday. “When I was told they were going to make a film about me I […]

Acclaimed Iranian female filmmaker Pouran Derakhshandeh said the world of Iranian cinema should be recognized by its children and youth’s visual arts. In a message to the 31st edition of International Film Festival for Children and Youth which is currently underway in Isfahan, Pouran Derakhshandeh, a film director, producer, screen writer, and researcher, said holding […]