TEHRAN – Iranian director Yaser Talebi’s film “The Descendants” received the Best Foreign Film Award at the Royal Starr Film Festival (RSFF), which was held in Royal Oak, Michigan from October 12 to 15. The film is about Jacob, an Iranian Jewish man who leaves Iran for Sweden to find his son, Farrokh, who was […]

TEHRAN – Winners at the 2nd Sheed Persian Film Festival will be presented with a CloseUp Award this year in memory of the legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. The award, which has been named after Kiarostami’s 1990 masterwork “Close-Up”, will be presented to the best film, best director and best actor and actress. The festival, […]

TEHRAN– Iranian feature ‘Kupal’, directed by Kazem Mollaei, will be screened in the 26th Berkeley International Film Festival and the 5th edition of Portland Film Festival. Following its continued international screenings, ‘Kupal’ will be showcased in the main competition section of two American festivals as Iran’s sole representative. Kazem Mollaei’s debut feature ‘Kupal’ narrates the […]

TEHRAN – “The Rock”, a documentary by Hamid Jafari from Iran, has received the best short documentary award at the 2017 New Orleans Film Festival, the organizers have announced. The film is about a woman in southern Iran who goes to the mountain by the village every day, breaks up rocks, puts the stones on […]

TEHRAN – The 25th edition of the Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, which will be held in Toronto, Canada from November 3 to 11, will screen two Iranian films. Mehrdad Oskui’s acclaimed documentary “Starless Dreams” will be screened on November 5 and Hossein Kondori’s drama “Nobody Dies Here” will go on screen on November 7. […]

TEHRAN – Eleven movies will go on screen in the official competition of the 7th Iranian Film Festival Australia, which will open in Melbourne on October 26. “Subdued” by Hamid Nematollah, “The Girl’s House” by Shahram Shah-Hosseini, “Leila” by Dariush Mehrjui, “Breath” by Narges Abyar and “Israfil” by Ida Panahandeh are among the films to […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Karim Lakzadeh’s “A Girl in the Room” was selected as best short at the Beirut International Film Festival, the organizers announced on Thursday. The film is about an elderly man and his friends at a guesthouse, in which they are preparing to welcome the man’s daughter who is coming to visit […]

TEHRAN – Two Iranian films have won awards at the Zero Plus International Film Festival in Russia. “Chocolate” by director Mehdi Heidari received the award for best film in the short fiction film category, the organizers have announced. “The Mystery of Persian Carpets” (“Suzangerd”) by Masumeh Nurmohammadi won the special prize in the popular scientific […]

TEHRAN – The 1st edition of the Guwahati International Film Festival (GIFF) plans to review Iranian cinema in a special section titled “Contemporary Iranian Cinema”, the Telegraph India reported on Friday. Movies such as “Parting”, a joint production of Iran and Afghanistan by Navid Mahmudi, and “Valderama” by Abbas Amini have been selected for the […]

TEHRAN – “Gamichi”, Iranian director Majid Esmaeili’s film on Lake Urmia and its environmental crisis, received the Award for an Outstanding Cinematic Achievement at the 40th Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers in Frankfurt, the organizers announced on Saturday. The film is about a young boy, Hassan, who lives near Lake Urmia with his […]