An Iranian cultural exhibition is currently underway in Algerian city of Balida to get the Algerians familiar with Iran’s culture and art. The cultural exhibition which is held through the efforts of Iran’s embassy in Algeria and an Algerian cultural institute is currently underway in the city of Balida that is the capital of Blida […]

Iranian feature movie ‘No Date, No Signature’ directed by Vahid Jalilvand has won the Best Film Award at the Brussels International Film Festival. The first edition of Brussels International Film Festival took place from the 20th to the 30th of June in Belgian capital city, offering an urban and cinematographic experience to the festival goers. […]

TEHRAN – Two-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi was selected as an Honorary Patron of the Film Academy Foundation (De la Fundación Academia de Cine), the foundation announced on Thursday. The Film Academy Foundation is a Spanish professional organization dedicated to the promotion and development of Spanish cinema with headquarters based in Madrid and Barcelona. Antonio […]

Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region has been inscribed into UNESCO World Heritage list during the 42nd session of World Heritage Committee held in Manama, Bahrain. After several meetings of debate in Bahraini capital city of Manama, the World Heritage Committee on Saturday inscribed Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region in Iran on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. […]

 Deputy Culture Minister for Press Affairs Mohammad Soltanifar said that the journalists’ summit of Caspian littoral states will soon be held with cooperation of Iran and Azerbaijan. He made the remarks after his Friday meeting with the Chairman of Azerbaijan Press Council Aflatun Amashov in Azerbaijan. Touching upon agreements between the two countries to enhance […]

Two Iranian shorts, ‘Gaze’ by Farnoosh Samadi and ‘Umrba’ by Saeed Jafarian, have been accepted into the competiotn section of 26th Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival in Portugal. ‘Gaze’, directed by Farnoosh Samadi, is about a woman who witnesses something happening in the bus on her way back from work, and she has to […]

TEHRAN – Iranian action star-turned-director Mehdi Fakhimzadeh injured himself while he was on the set of his current film reportedly named “The Last Fist”, the public relations office of the film said in a statement published on Wednesday. The incident happened while Fakhimzadeh was performing a stunt riding a motorbike on Chalus Road in the […]

TEHRAN – An Iranian cultural festival opened in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on Wednesday, offering a wide variety of programs. Iran’s National Orchestra conducted by Fereidun Shahbazian, and accompanyed by vocalist Salar Aqili gave a performance at the opening ceremony, which took place at the State Academic Philharmonic Hall. The Iranian Minister of Culture […]

TEHRAN – Oscar-nominated Iranian director Majid Majidi who has made his latest movie “Beyond the Clouds” in India has said that it was very risky for him to make the movie in the country. “I had proposals from several Indian producers to make a film in their country, but I viewed them as highly risky […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran will be playing host to an Italian film festival opening on July 1. Six movies by Italian filmmakers will be reviewed at the event, Italian Ambassador Mauro Conciatori said during a press conference held at the Forum on Wednesday. He added that the two Italian film experts […]