TEHRAN – Iranian director Reza Dormishian’s social drama “Lanturi” will be dubbed into Chinese. A group of Chinese voice actors is scheduled to be hired to work on the movie, Mohammad Atebbai, who is the international distributor of “Lanturi”, said in a press release published on Friday. The movie starring Baran Kowsari and Navid Mohammadzadeh […]

TEHRAN – Shahab Hosseini, the Iranian actor who won a Cannes Palme d’Or for his role in Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman”, has established a film studio. The studio named Nedaye Haft Aseman is seeking to discover and support talents in cinema and theater, he said in a post published on his Instagram on Friday. He […]

 Iran’s ‘Summerless’ play directed by Amir Reza Koohestani will be performed on Saturday and Sunday in ‘Festival delle Colline Torinesi’ held in Torino, Italy. Mona Ahmadi, Saeid Changizian, Leyli Rashidi and Juliette Rezai will perform in this play. Also, Summerless is due to attend Farnce’s 2018 Festival d’Avignon held between July 8-15. The team will […]

TEHRAN – The winners of the End of Terrorism Art Competition (the End of Daesh Art Competition) were announced in Tehran early last week. Angel Boligan Corbo from Mexico received first prize in the cartoon category during a ceremony held at the Art Bureau last Saturday. Second and third prizes in this section were presented […]

TEHRAN – Turkish pop singer Ilyas Yalcintas who is popular in Iran for songs like “Icimdeki Duman”, “Yagmur” and “Gel Be Gökyüzüm” will give his first Iranian performance on Kish Island in July. “I proudly announce that we obtained permission from the Iranian government to perform concerts on Kish Island,” Yalcintas announced in a post […]

TEHRAN – Iranian artist Gholamali Taheri is working on his new collection featuring portraits of art and cultural luminaries. “The collection contains the portraits of those poets, musicians and sculptors who lived over the past century,” Taheri told the Persian service of MNA on Saturday. “I have so far completed the portraits of 18 poets […]

Following a schoolmaster’s sexual misconduct at a private school in western Tehran some Iranians started using the #MeToo on twitter since Wednesday evening, sharing their experiences of harassment and assault. On May 27, some 40 parents filed a complaint against a schoolmaster who has allegedly displayed some sexually harassing behaviors at a private school in […]

 Iranian short animation ‘Alphabet’ directed by Kianoush Abedi has been accepted into the screening program of the 4th Still Voices Short Film Festival in Ireland. The 6-minute animated piece ‘Alphabet’, directed by Kianoush Abedi, narrates the story of people who have forgotten life and are separated from knowledge and truth. The animation depicts a nation that […]

Iran and Japan are trying to boost their academic cooperation and in the first step, the MoU between Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Japan’s Juntendo University will soon be implemented, said Nader Riahi-Alam, the official link between Tehran University of Medical sciences and Japanese universities. Recognizing the grounds and potentials of bilateral academic ties, […]

Five art museums in Japan will exhibit illustrations of Iranian artists. According to the website of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, some Iranian illustrations which had been accepted in Biennial of Illustration Bratislava 2017, will be exhibited in Japan’s art museums. ‘I was a deer’ illustrated by Narges Mohamadi which […]