Iranian documentary ‘Gharshelegh’ directed by Reza Gholami will go on screen at 28th International Film Festival Message To Man in Russia. Message to Man is one of the oldest and best known film festivals in Russia, founded in 1989, and registered by FIAPF. The program includes International Competition, In Silico Experimental Short Film Competition, National […]

 The 27th edition of Iran Handmade Carpet Exhibition, as the world’s most important and biggest event in the art and industry of handmade carpets, has kicked off in Tehran on Saturday. Known as the world’s biggest handmade carpet exhibition in terms of quality, quantity and production, the international Iran Handmade Carpet Exhibition will run through […]

 Iranian short ‘Staircase’ directed by Mohsen Banihashemi will be screened at Venice Film Festival. ‘Staircase’ is one of the 13 titles accepted into the Horizons short films section of the festival and will have more than 2 screenings. The 20-minute movie, stars Sara Bahrami, Toomaj Danesh Behzadi, Faezeh Yousefi, and Kamelia Ghazali. The 75th Venice Film Festival will […]

TEHRAN – The 17th Mobarak International Puppet Theater Festival opened on Wednesday as the festival director, Marzieh Borumand, wished children in the world peace and friendship. Parents and their children holding their dolls and puppets joined a large carnival of puppets and walked from the Mina Dome at the Abbasabad Cultural Complex to Ab-o-Atash Park […]

Iranian fiction-feature ‘Orange Days’ directed by Arash Lahooti will have its international premiere at the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. TIFF describes ‘Orange Days’ as an “empowering fiction-feature debut from documentary director Arash Lahooti [which] stars Hadieh Tehrani as a tough-as-nails farm contractor proving she can compete, against unfair odds, with male competitors […]

According to the Public Relations Department of Iranian Youth Cinema Society, the Iranian capital Tehran will host an event in which several Finnish films will be displayed on Sep. 5. According to the Iranian Youth Cinema Society’s report on Tuesday, nine films will be screened during the Finland film evening in Tehran. The event will be […]

Communication and Press Deputy of International Children and Youth Film Festival, Ahad Mikaeilzadeh, says the children cinema has played a pivotal role in formation of Iran’s new cinema industry. Addressing a local gathering attended by several officials of the festival in central Province of Isfahan, Ahad Mikaeilzadeh said several great Iranian filmmakers, including internationally-acclaimed filmmaker […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Hossein Parsai plans to stage a musical based Victor Hugo’s French historical novel “Les Misérables” during autumn. No further details were mentioned in a press release published by a public relations team on Monday. Earlier in last autumn, Parsai directed a musical based on Charles Dickens’s novel “Oliver Twist” with an […]

TEHRAN – Friends and fans joined Ezzatollah Entezami’s family in the courtyard of Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Saturday to attend the funeral of the legendary actor who died on Friday at the age of 94. Entezami was one of Iran’s golden generation of actors such as Davud Rashidi, Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz, Ali Nasirian and Jamshid Mashyekhi, […]

Iranian short animated piece ‘Pet Man’ by Marzieh Abrar-Paydar has made it into the screening program of 2018 Horrible Imaginings Film Festival in San Diego of USA. ‘Pet Man’ tells the story of an animal dealer who falls asleep in his shop and has a nightmare where he is trapped inside an animal cage. In […]