Three short films were displayed at the Chilean embassy thanks to the Iranian Youth Cinema Society on Sunday. According to the Public Relations Office of the Iranian Youth Cinema Society, Chilean Short Film Evening was held at the embassy of the Republic of Chile, attended by enthusiasts and a number of foreign ambassadors on Wednesday. […]

Iranian short animation ‘Alphabet’ directed by Kianoush Abedi has been accepted into the screening programs of two international film festivals in Italy and the US. ‘Alphabet’ will vie at the 7th edition of Nebrodi Film Festival to be held on 13-15 July 2018 in Messina, Italy. The Iranian animated piece will also take part at the 2nd […]

TEHRAN – A great number of Iranian art elites came together at the Tehran Book Garden on Friday evening to attend an inauguration ceremony for the Tehran Art Space, a large gallery that hosted the prominent sculptor Parviz Tanavoli and his students during its debut exhibition titled “Heech and All”. Tanavoli’s latest works from his […]

TEHRAN – Serbian Professor Darko Tanaskovic has that efficacy is the absolute miracle of the poems of the Persian poet and scientist Omar Khayyam. He made the remarks in a meeting organized at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center on Thursday to celebrate the Khayyam millennium. “The messages of his poetry are so obvious that they directly […]

French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, best known for Francois Truffaut’s 400 Blows and Jean Luc Godard’s Masculin Feminin, is heading his way to help celebrate the 36th edition of Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. The French actor’s career has gone hand in hand with the great directors of the French New Wave, but he has […]

TEHRAN – Iranian musician Pezhham Akhavass will give a performance at the 2018 San Francisco World Percussion Arts Festival, the organizers have announced. Akhavass is scheduled to play daf and tonbak, two Iranian percussion instruments, at the festival, which will be running on July 21 and 22. Japanese legendary taiko drummers Yoshikazu Fujimoto and Yoko […]

Iranian cartoonist Saeed Sadeghi won the golden hat of 57th Knokke-Heist Cartoon Festival in Belgium. The Cartoon is about the Moai – the large stone statues on Easter Island. Cartoonists from Portugal and Bulgaria received the Silver and Bronze Hats respectively. Participants were free to choose the theme of their entries. Displaying of selected works has […]

 Iranian documentary feature ‘Weavers of Imagination’ directed by Mohammad Sadegh Jafari will compete at the 26th American Psychological Association Film Festival in San Francisco, US. ‘Weavers of Imagination’ recounts the life of a number of visually-impaired people who weave rugs together and how the simple fact of working together fills them with a great sense of happiness. […]

The 18th International Agricultural Products, Equipments, Machineries, Foodstuff and Related Industries Exhibition kicked off in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, at Permanent Ground For Tabriz International Exhibition Co., on Tuesday. The exhibition is open until July 07, with the participation of representatives from Oman, Azerbaijan and a number of related companies from across the country at […]

TEHRAN – On Sunday, UNESCO added an ensemble of Sassanian historical cities in southern Iran to its world heritage list. The Sassanid era (224 CE–651) is of very high importance in the history of the nation, under which Persian art and architecture experienced a general renaissance. Architecture often took grandiose proportions such as palaces at […]