The 31st International Film Festival for Children and Youth plans to honor late Iranian-Armenian Director Zaven Ghokasian with a special prize for the first time in the history of the event, an official said on Saturday. According to the festival news headquarters in central province of Isfahan, the Executive Director of festival Mohammad Eidi said […]

Kopet Dag in Shirvan county, northeastern North Khorasan province, has received UNESCO recognition for biosphere reserves, North Khorasan provincial chief of department of environment has said. Kopet Dag is a protected area stretching over 18,000 hectares of land area and is filled with thick forests and variety of plant and animal species. The biosphere reserve […]

TEHRAN – International travelers visiting Iran are confounded why Iran is appearing so weak in introducing its historical and natural attractions, the director of Iran’s center of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-Iran) has said. Seyyed Ahmad Mohit-Tabatabaei told ISNA in an interview on Friday that travel marketing needs its own know-how just like any […]

TEHRAN – The 18th edition of the Hafez Awards, Iran’s first and only private awards in the film industry and TV productions, plans to honor veteran stage and cinema director Ali Rafiei with a lifetime achievement award, the organizers announced on Saturday. The ceremony will be held in Tehran on August 13. Critic and producer […]

Iranian feature ‘Kupal’ directed by Kazem Mollaie will be screened at the 4th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in US. ‘Kupal’ is the unusual story of a hunter and a taxidermist, named Dr. Ahmad Kupal, who, on the last day of the year, faces an unexpected challenge by trapping himself in his basement with little […]

TEHRAN – The 7th edition of the Persian International Film Festival, which will be held in the Australian cities of Sidney and Melbourne, has announced the official lineup. The Sidney program will be held from August 30 to September 2 and Melbourne will host the festival from September 6 to 9, the organizers have said. […]

Iranian feature ‘Redhead’ directed by Karim Lakzadeh will be competing at the 23rd edition of Split Film Festival in Croatia. Written and directed by Lakzadeh, ‘Redhead’ is the story of Farhad, with a family tragedy lurking around him and gaining atmospheric shape on the drive to their parents’ house as they learn their uncle has […]

The late prominent Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, his short and feature films, has been a major contributor to show Iran in famous International festivals.Iranian Cinema has had the most international presence in international festivals and the name of Kiarostami is shining. Kiarostami belongs to which was known as golden era of Institute for the Intellectual […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Vahid Hosseininami’s short film “Whole to Part” was named as best film at the 19th Lucania Film Festival in Italy, the organizers announced on Sunday. The short tells the story of a gigantic iron statue of a despot which is removed from the town square. The statue is melted and the […]

TEHRAN – The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA) has denied the rediscovery of 10 more Picasso artworks among its collection. In a story published on August 3, the Art Newspaper, a journal of record for the visual arts world based in London and New York, quoting Mattijs Visser, the Dutch architect and curator at […]