Iranian Short ‘Driving Lessons’ directed by Marzieh Riahi will take part at the 59th Cartagena Film Festival in Colombia. Directed by Marzieh Riahi, the Iranian short film ‘Driving Lessons’ will take part at the 59th Cartagena Film Festival in Colombia, which is the oldest film festival in Latin America mostly dedicated to the promotion of Colombian […]

Iranian documentary ‘Women with Gunpowder Earrings’ directed by Reza Farahmand will be screened in three international film festivals in Croatia, Belgium and Czech Republic. Iranian documentary ‘Women with Gunpowder Earrings’ directed by Reza Farahmand will take part at the main competition section of 15th edition of ZagrebDox, the International Documentary Film Festival, which will be […]

 Iranian feature film ‘Kejal’ directed by Nima Yar will be screened at two categories of the 11th Bengaluru International Film Festival in the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Nima Yar’s ‘Kejal’ is about a young university student named Kejal who begins smuggling goods on her back with all her might on Iran and Iraq border to look […]

Over 3,000 films have been submitted from across the globe to the 12th International 100 Seconds Film Festival in Iran, scheduled for 27th February to 1st March 2019. The 12th International 100 Seconds Film Festival will be held under the theme ‘moral and lifestyle’ on 27th February to 1st March 2019 in Tehran. According to […]

Two Iranian documentaries, ‘Beloved’ by Yaser Talebi and ‘Lotus’ by Mohammadreza Vatandoust, have been shortlisted in two competition sections of 16th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in US. Directed by Mohammadreza Vatandoust, ‘Beloved’ follows the life of an 80-year-old mother named Firouzeh who is fond of her isolated lifestyle in nature with her cows. The film […]

 Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation in association with Culture House of the Islamic republic of Iran, Mumbai are organising Iranian film festival at Alliance Française of Madras from 11 to 13 February. Here is a quick look at the films that will be screened: I am Taraneh, I am fifteen years old Fifteen-year-old Taraneh, whose widowed […]

 The Iranian film ‘The Fog’ directed by Ali Shoorvarzi has won the Best Short and Best Actress awards at the 3rd Rosarito International Film Festival in the United States. ‘The Fog’ is a story about a woman a woman working at funeral parlor who has not prepared any dead body after her child’s death and […]

 Two Iranian films, ‘My Arms Flew’ by Hossein Nuri and ‘Endless?’ by Maryam Zahirimehr, have won awards at the 11th Aryan Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) in India. Iranian feature ‘My Arms Flew’ directed by Hossein Nuri received a Special Jury Mention at the 11th Aryan Jaipur International Film Festival in India. ‘My Arms Flew’ […]

Iranian documentary ‘Beyond the Fence’ directed by Arman Gholipour has made it into the competition program of 36th edition of BUFF, a film festival for young audience, in Sweden. Iranian documentary ‘Beyond the Fence’ directed by Arman Gholipour has made it into the competition program of 2nd La Picasa International Film Festival in Argentina. Directed […]

 Iranian actor Mehdi Mahani won Moscow Indie Film Festival’s Best Matrioshka Actor in a Leading Role award for his performance in ‘Supine’ directed by Shahram Asadzadeh. The Best Matrioshka Actor in a Leading Role award at the December edition of Moscow Indie Film Festival went to Iranian actor Mehdi Mahani for his performance in ‘Supine’, […]