TEHRAN – Iran celebrated its 120 years of national cinema history at Tehran’s Felestin Cinema on Thursday during the opening ceremony of the 36th Fajr International Film Festival. The ceremony was attended by a large number of Iranian cineastes and foreign guests as veteran actor Reza Kianian cut a cake prepared for the celebration. In […]

‘21 Days Later’, a feature film directed by Mohammad Reza Kheradmanda, has won Best Film award at the 25th Kinder Kino Fest (KiKiFe) in Germany. ’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 realize his dreams. Directed […]

TEHRAN — Iranian director Omid Shams’ “Birthday Night” has won the Best of the Fest Award at the Short Sweet Film Festival in the United States, the organizers announced on Monday. “Birthday Night” film is about Ahmad and Ali, two friends and business partners who face a dramatic situation on their birthday night. “Last Call […]

Iranian short film ‘It Rains Slowly’ directed by Saeed Nejati has won the Best Feature Film Award at the 6th edition of Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival (NHRIFF). ‘It Rains Slowly’ directed by Saeed Nejati is set in Turkey just before the coup d’état 1980, narrating the story of a teacher who teaches his students […]

TEHRAN – Iranian director Homayun Shahnavaz who was mostly renowned for “Braves of Tangestan”, a popular TV series on the armed uprising of people in southern Iran against the British forces during World War I, died at Tehran’s Motahhari Hospital on Wednesday from injuries he suffered in a fire at his home. He died shortly […]

TEHRAN – “A Woman without a Name”, an Iranian documentary by Farzad Khoshdast, will be competing in the Copenhagen Film Festival (CPH:DOX) running in the Danish capital from March 16 to 26, the organizers have announced. The documentary centers on four young women who share their thoughts from behind the bars at a prison for […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian movies “Maned & Macho” by Shiva Sadeq-Asadi and “The Distance” by Yusef Kargar will compete in the 35th Busan International Short Film Festival, which will run in the South Korean city from April 24 to 29. “Maned and Macho” is about a girl’s repressed emotions and instincts, which are embodied in […]

TEHRAN – Movies from Iranian filmmakers will be screened at two international festivals in Malaysia and Nepal in March. Director Mostafa Taqizadeh’s debut film “Yellow” will compete in the Malaysia International Film Festival, the organizers have announced. A question and answer panel has also been organized after a screening, which will be held on March […]

14 Iranian films will be displayed at the second edition of Wisconsin Iranian Film Festival. The Wisconsin Film Festival has been set up by UW-Madison graduate student Hamidreza Nassiri to create a cultural dialogue through works of art, and in its second edition, it will showcase the best films of Iranian cinema. The seven movies […]

The Rock by Hamid Jafari has won the Best Short Documentary at 7th annual Irvine International Film Festival. Also at the same category which Iranian short film competed, the ‘Knife Skills by Thomas Lennon won the ‘Honorable Mention.’ Jafari’s documentary has already been featured in two other festivals in the United States, namely Hot Springs Documentary […]