TEHRAN – Two-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi will preside over the jury of the official competition at the 15th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival, which will be held in the Armenian capital during July, the organizers have announced. British cinematographer Larry Smith, German film expert Beki Probst who is the president of the European […]

TEHRAN – Actor/director Mohsen Hosseini has announced his plan to stage a play based on German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “West-East Divan” in Weimar and Frankfurt following an invitation from the Goethe-Institut. Speaking to the Persian service of FNA on Sunday, Hosseini said that his troupe will give two performances in Weimar and four […]

Acclaimed Iranian feature movie ‘Track 143’, directed by Narges Abyar, is set to screen in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. According to a MoU, the flick currently run at China’s Qingdao film fest will be shown in 4 world spots, the producer said to local media. Mohammad Hossein Ghasemi noted that the Memorandum of […]

TEHRAN – Manijeh Hekmat narrates a story about sexual assault and the culture of silence in Iran in her latest movie “The Abandoned Road”. The film premiered in the official competition of the 36th Fajr Film Festival in Tehran on Friday. The film is about a woman employee who is kidnapped and raped on the […]

TEHRAN – Animated pieces ‘Alphabet’ by Kianoush Abedi and ‘The Servant’ by Farnoush Abedi have been shortlisted as semi-finalists at the 2018 San Mauro Torinese Internatioanl Film Festival (STIFF) in Italy. ‘The Servant’, directed by Farnoush Abedi, which has been so far screened at over 100 international festivals and scooped as many as 20 awards, […]

TEHRAN – “The Last Fiction”, an animated feature film produced by Hoorakhsh Studio in Tehran, will be competing in the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). In a letter sent to Hoorakhsh, APSA Executive Manager Eddy Garcia-Grant asked the studio to submit the movie to the APSA Animated Feature Film category, the studio announced on […]

Iranian director for museum affairs says countries pay Iran 100,000-200,000 dollars for displaying Iranian historical items and antiques at their museums. Mohammadreza Kargar, director for museum affairs at the Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and Tourism Organization, told Mehr News correspondent on Wednesday that the payment is partly from the revenues obtained from selling tickets. He added that […]

Ashkan Rahgozar’s debut feature ‘The Last Fiction’, an animated interpretation of a popular Persian folklore, has been invited to vie at the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia. The animated movie ‘The Last Fiction’, directed by Ashkan Rahgozar and produced by Ehsan Rasulof at Hoorakhsh Studios, has been invited by Eddy Garcia-Grant, the director […]

TEHRAN – Iranian vocalist Mohammad Motamedi will team up with a number of European musicians to give performances at the 2nd Dutch Edition of the Oriental Landscapes. The Oriental Landscapes will open tomorrow running until June 25 in five cities of Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Rotterdam and Leiden. Motamedi’s first series of performances will be held […]

 Iran has once again hosted the deprived people of Gaza Strip for Iftar dinners in cooperation with Kashmiri charity ‘Ehsas’. Given the fact that the people of Palestine, especially the Gazans have lived under Israeli regime’s blockade for years, the Iranian charity ‘International Union of Unified Ummah’ has hosted thousands of Gazans for iftar dinners […]