Iranian filmmaker Hamid Jafari’s documentary “The Rock” has won the Youth Jury Prize at the 17th Baikal International Film Festival on the theme of people and environment. The film is about a woman in southern Iran who goes to the mountain by the village every day, breaks up rocks, puts the stones on a truck […]

 “Rona, Azim’s Mother”, a co-production between Afghanistan and Iran, has been submitted to the 91st Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Thursday. The Tehran-based Afghan brothers Jamshid and Navid Mahmudi are the director and producer of the movie, whose story is set in Tehran. Starring […]

‘21 Days Later’, a feature film directed by Mohammad Reza Kheradmandan and produced by Soureh Cinema, will compete at the 6th Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival (SICFF) in the UAE. ’21 Days Later’ is a melodrama which revolves around the life of a teenager named Morteza who is faced with many challenges on his way […]

 The Iranian House of Cinema announced on Monday that it has submitted two feature films, “Astigmatism” and “Orduckly”, (“Ordakli”) and two documentary films, “Iran’s Lady Qods” and “Finding Farideh”, to the 12th edition of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). “Astigmatism” directed by Majidreza Mostafavi has been selected for the Feature Film category. The film […]

 “All Mama’s Babies” by Rezvan Sarmad will be screened in the national competition of the 12th Cinema Verite, Iran’s major international festival of documentary cinema, which is scheduled to be held in December. The documentary covers a story about Sarmad family. The filmmaker’s parents decide to transform their house into a 9-floor apartment building to […]

 An exhibition of photos and documents on the diplomatic relations between Iran and Australia opened at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran on Sunday. Australian Ambassador Ian Biggs, IAF director Majid Rajabi-Memar and foreign diplomats attended the opening ceremony of the exhibit, which has been organized to celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations between […]

“Pig” by Iranian filmmaker Mani Haqiqi has won the Golden Amphora (Amphore D’or) at the 7th Fifigrot Film Festival, which took place in the French city of Toulouse last week, the organizers announced. The film is about Hassan, a filmmaker who has not been able to make any films recently, but his popular starlet can’t […]

Parviz Tayidi, Iranian film and theater director and the translator of “An Actor’s Work on a Role” by Russian theater practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938), has died in Tehran. He was 81, Persian media reported on Sunday. Tayidi had a great role in introducing theater to Iranian stage actors through his Persian translation of “An Actor’s […]

On October 24, Christie’s in London will be offering Middle Eastern, Iranian and Turkish Modern and Contemporary Art for the first time in the history of international auction houses. After more than ten years of developing the regional art market and successes at auctions in Dubai, Christie’s will take its fall auction to London with […]

Director Behruz Gharibpur plans to restage the Ashura opera puppet show with his Aran Theater Troupe at Tehran’s Ferdowsi Hall during October, the group announced on Saturday. The opera is about the battle of Imam Hussein (AS) and his companions against the Umayyad dynasty during Ashura, the tenth day of the month of Muharram on […]