TEHRAN – The BigBang International Short Film Festival, which was organized with short films by Iranian creators in the Greek capital of Athens from June 1 to 3, announced winners of its second edition. “Manicure” by Arman Fayyaz was named best film, while Parviz Rostami was crowned best director for “The Scarecrows Also Die”, the […]

 Iranian short animated piece ‘Mr. Deer’ directed by Mojtaba Mousavi has won the Special Animation award at the 28th Animafest Zagreb in Croatia. Directed by Mojtaba Mousavi and produced by Elaheh Farnia, ‘Mr. Deer’ is a 20-minute stop motion animation which utilizes the puppet technique to narrate a story set in an unknown time, in […]

The Iranian animated movie ‘The Elephant King’ directed by Hadi Mohammadian will attend in the market screening sector of Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The festival kicks off today in Annecy, France and will be closed by June 16. The Iranian animation will be screened on Tuesday in cinema Pathé at 10 am local time. […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Puya Badkubeh’s debut drama “Dressage” has been nominated for best film while the film’s star Negar Moqaddam received a nomination for best actress at the 21st Shanghai International Film and TV Festival, the organizers have announced. The film is competing in the Asian New Talent Award section of the festival, which […]

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 […]