TEHRAN – Eight Iranian films will be screened at the Hamilton Film Festival in Canada during November, the organizers have announced. Kazem Mollai’s drama “Kupal” will go on screen in the feature section and Ali Nikfar’s “Kayyam Khani” has been selected for the music film section. “Numbness” by Milad Jarmuz will be screened in the […]

TEHRAN – “Gamichi”, Iranian director Majid Esmaeili’s a film on Lake Urmia and its environmental crisis, is competing in the official section of the 40th Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers, which is underway in Frankfurt, Germany. The film is about a young boy, Hassan, who lives near Lake Urmia with his family. The […]

TEHRAN – The three Iranian cities of Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan will be playing host to a weeklong Brazilian film festival opening next week. Roberto Berliner, a Brazilian director and producer, is scheduled to attend the Brazilian Film Week, the organizers announced on Monday. Brazilian Ambassador Rodrigo de Azeredo Santos and diplomats from other embassies […]

TEHRAN – Iranian actress Sadaf Asgari was named best for her role in “Disappearance” at the 1st edition of the Fiumicino Film Festival in Italy, the organizers announced on Sunday. Directed by Ali Asgari, the film is set on a cold winter night in Tehran where a couple of young lovers run into a serious […]

TEHRAN– Iranian short ‘Retouch’ directed by Kave Mazaheri will be screened in Spain’s 62nd Valladolid International Film Festival, as well as other eleven international festivals. ‘Retouch’ is slated to vie at different festivals in China, London, Germany, Chicago and Philadelphia of USA, Adelaide of Australia, Tacoma Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival and Italy’s […]

TEHRAN – The France-based Iranian scholar Leili Anvar, has been selected as the director of the 1st Persian Speakers in Europe Art Festival, the organizers announced on Tuesday. Anvar is the translator of a French version of the Masnavi-ye Manavi and Attar’s “The conference of the Birds”. Organized by the Persiana Art and Culture Association, […]

TEHRAN – Five Iranian films will go on screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival running from September 28 to October 13, 2017. “Azar”, a debut film by Mohammad Hamzei, “No Date, No Signature” by Vahid Jalilvand, and Abbas Kiarostami’s last experimental work “24 Frames” will go on screen in the panorama section of the […]

TEHRAN–’21 Days Later’, a feature film directed by Mohammad Reza Kheradmandan and produced by Soureh Cinema will compete in the 11th edition of Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia. ’21 Days Later’ is a melodrama which revolves around the life of a teenager named Morteza who is faced with many challenges on his way to […]

TEHRAN – The secretary of the 6th International Green Film Festival, Farhad Tohidi, jazzed up the closing ceremony of the event on Friday evening by his satirical remarks mocking those private and public commercial organizations over their unwillingness to take part in environmental movements. He also chided governmental personalities over their disregard of the festival, […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Narges Abyar’s acclaimed anti-war drama “Breath” will go on screen at the 24th Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan during October. The film is about four children whose mother had died a few years earlier and their father decides to join the Iranian volunteers on the warfront following Iraq’s […]