Iranian short animation ‘Bystander’ directed by Sheyda Kashi will vie at SAGA: Adelaide International Women’s Film Festival in Australia. ‘Bystander’ is about an old man who is living behind a window from where he sees a dark world and remembers his past when he was an active revolutionary. The 8-minute animation had previously received two […]

The 2018 Cannes jury announced the awards of the festival’s 71st edition, with Japan’s ‘Shoplifters’ winning Palme d’Or and Iran’s Panahi sharing best screenplay prize for ‘3 Faces’. Under the presidency of Cate Blanchett, the jury included filmmakers Ava DuVernay and Denis Villeneuve and actors Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydoux, as well as Chinese actor Chang Chen, French director Robert Guédiguian, […]

TEHRAN – The 26th International Holy Quran Exhibition opened at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Mosalla on Saturday during a special ceremony attended by Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Abbas Salehi and a number of cultural figures. Copies of the Holy Quran published by various Iranian and international publishers have been put on view at the […]

 Totally some 59,000 houses should be reconstructed in quake-hit Kermanshah rural and urban areas, among which building of some 31,000 houses have been completed, said Reza Khajei, an official with Islamic Revolution Housing Foundation. On November 12, 2017 a destructive magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Kermanshah. Some 90,000 houses were partly or completely damaged by the […]

The Brazilian video and film festival Anima Mundi will screen six Iranian animated pieces in the competition section of its 26th edition. The Iranian animated pieces that have made it into the main competition section of the 26th Anima Mundi film festival include: ‘Nobody’ by Elham Toroghi, ‘Polychrome’ by Negareh Halimi, ‘Mr. Deer’ by Mojtaba […]

TEHRAN — A number of Persian scholars, poets and officials gathered at the mausoleum of Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) in his homeland of Neyshabur on Friday to celebrate the national day of the great Iranian mathematician, astronomer and poet. The city also hosted several other meetings, seminars and workshops of photography, calligraphy and sculptures on Khayyam. […]

TEHRAN – “The Hedgehog” has scored a stunning success at the box office by selling over 2000 tickets in the week following its premiere at the Samandarian Hall of the Iranshahr Theater Complex in Tehran, the Persian service of ILNA reported on Wednesday. The monolog, which is directed and performed by Bahram Afshari, is about […]

TEHRAN – Former TV anchor Qasem Afshar who worked at the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting for three decades died of heart failure at his home in Tehran on Wednesday. He was 67, Persian news media announced. He began his career in the early 1980s and soon turned out to be one of the major […]

TEHRAN – Several movie theaters across Tehran are planning to screen the 2018 FIFA World Cup games live for football fans, a spokesman for the Screening Council has said. “Those theaters that are willing to screen the games need to apply to the council,” Gholamreza Faraji noted. “We believe the plan will increase the number […]

TEHRAN – Actor Ali Nasirian has been selected as the president of 20th edition of the Iran Cinema Celebration, the organizers announced on Tuesday. The appointment was decided during the Monday meeting of the Board of Trustees of the celebration, which is annually organized by the Iranian House of Cinema. The 20th Iran Cinema Celebration […]