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 […]

 Iranian short film ‘Chocolate’, directed and written by Mehdi Heidari, will vie at 2018 Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema, Russia. Produced in Azeri language, the 15-minute-long film narrates the story of a boy who intentionally hits himself to the ground and cries in front of an old woman to receive chocolate and kindness from […]

TEHRAN – Director Ziaeddin Dorri who was mostly famous for his popular TV series “The English Briefcase” (also known as “The English Bag”) died on Friday at the age of 65. Dorri died of infectious complications resulting from a liver transplant in the Abu Ali Sina Hospital in Shiraz, his son, Navid, told the Persian […]

TEHRAN – Ezzatollah Entezami, the veteran actor of stage and screen who was named ‘master actor’ in his memoirs written by Hushang Golmakani, died at Tehran’s Bahonar Hospital on Friday. He was 94. His son, Majid, confirmed the news in a call to IRNA on Friday morning. He began his career in acting with Iranian […]