The acclaimed movie is about Abdul-Hamid Rigi, the younger brother of Abdul-Malik Rigi, the founder and leader of the Jundallah terrorist group in southeastern Iran, who marries Faezeh Mansuri, a woman from Tehran. He forces Faezeh to leave her homeland along with her brother, Shahab, to live in Pakistan where they find themselves involved in Jundallah terrorist activities.

The film won Crystal Simorghs in six categories, including best film and best director, at the 37th Fajr Film Festival in February.

“The Indian” by Nima Javidi about a prison warden who is assigned to transfer prisoners to a new building during the 1960s, and “We Are All Together” by Kamal Tabrizi, a comedy with an all-star cast about passengers who survive a plane crash, are among the films.

The selection also includes Qorban Mohammadpur’s “The Devil’s Daughter”, a movie with a cast of Iranian and Bollywood actors.

The film is about Satan’s daughter who intends to repent. She is first asked to find an innocent man to bow down to until her repentance is accepted. Satan’s daughter descends to search for the man.

“Snake Venom” by Javad Razavian and “Mr. Censorship” by Ali Jabbarzadeh will also hit the silver screens across the country.

The post Theaters in Iran to welcome Eid al-Fitr with new films appeared first on Iran News Daily.

A council composed of experts in various fields is scheduled to begin rating Iranian movies this summer based on an age-based ratings system, which was announced on April 30, Darughezadeh said.

According to the ratings system, “Movies having inappropriate words and scenes are forbidden for children under nine.”

Films with cigarette-smoking characters, “inappropriate language and violence, or horror scenes” are forbidden for children under 12

In addition, people under 15 are not allowed to watch scary movies and films with strong language and violence, drug abuse scenes, and relationships that violate common law.

People under 18 are not allowed to watch movies with strong language, extreme violence, drug abuse and marriage relationship scenes.

Based on the system, movies are not allowed to depict scenes promoting ethnic, racial, gender and religious discrimination.

According to the new regulations, film distributors, movies theaters, movie streaming sites and movie ticket booking sites must inform people of the ratings of movies onscreen.

Disregard for the regulations by the relevant organizations will be prosecuted, the Cinema Organization of Iran noted.

Photo: Cinema Organization of Iran deputy director Ebrahim Darughezadeh.

The post Official says Iran welcomes psychiatrists’ assistance in movie ratings appeared first on Iran News Daily.

 Iranian short ‘Return’ directed by Shahriar Pourseyedian has won the Grand Prix of 3rd Alternative film territory (ATK-FEST) in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The post ‘Return’ wins ATK-FEST’s Grand Prix in Russia appeared first on Iran News Daily.

‘21 Days Later’, a feature film directed by Mohammad Reza Kheradmandan and produced by Soureh Cinema, will compete at the 6th Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival (SICFF) in the UAE.

The post ’21 Days Later’ goes to UAE’s Sharjah Children Filmfest. appeared first on Iran News Daily.

The film is about Hassan, a filmmaker who has not been able to make any films recently, but his popular starlet can’t wait any longer and wants to leave and work with another director. His wife no longer loves him. His daughter has grown up and feels independent. His elderly mother is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. A disturbingly beautiful woman tracks him everywhere he goes and wants him to give her a role in his films.

Worse yet, a murderer is killing directors of Iranian cinema in the city, but he has ignored Hassan. Now he is despondent: isn’t he the most important filmmaker of the city? Why then doesn’t the murderer care about him? The situation becomes more intolerable when Hassan is accused as the prime suspect for the murder cases on the social networks. Now he is forced to concoct a clever plan to rebuild his destroyed reputation.

The movie stars Hassan Majuni, Leila Hatami, Leili Rashidi, Parinaz Izadyar and Ali Baqeri.

The People’s Amphore at the Fifigrot Film Festival was presented to “The Invisibles” by Louis-Julien Petit from France, and the Amphorette was awarded to the short film “Petite Avarie” by Léo Hardt and Manon Alirol from France.

The festival ran from September 14 to 23.

The post “Pig” named best at Fifigrot Film Festival appeared first on Iran News Daily.

“Meta Marathon” by Saeid Keshavarz, “Meeting” by Reza Majlesi and “The Rock” by Hamid Jafari will be screened in two different sections of the festival, which will take place in Yerevan and the beautiful village of Ujan from September 15 to 21.

“Meta Marathon” will be competing in the feature section. The film narrates the story of Qodratolloh Bayat, a young working man living in his modest village, boasting that he can break the world and Olympic marathon record. He joins a marathon competition held in the town and prepares a team to film his victory.

“Meeting” and “The Rock” will be competing in the short film category.

“Meeting” depicts the difficult everyday life of an elderly rural woman, full of hard work, and the traditions of her village on the threshold of the holy month of Ramadan.

“The Rock” is about a woman in southern Iran who goes to the mountain near her village every day, breaks up rocks, puts the stones on a truck and makes a living from it for her family.

About 20 documentaries from Germany, France, Norway, Ukraine and several other countries will be competing in the festival.

Iranian filmmaker Shahram Badakhshanmehr is a member of the festival jury this year.

His docudrama “Slowly” won the festival’s grand prix in the feature-length competition in 2017.

He will be judging the films along with German film director Wieland Speck and Armenian historian-anthropologist Hranush Kharatyan.

The post Apricot Tree festival picks films from Iran appeared first on Iran News Daily.

The film premiered in the official competition of the 36th Fajr Film Festival in Tehran on Friday.

The film is about a woman employee who is kidnapped and raped on the way back to her home.

“The main storyline revolves around the culture of silence that is aged as long as Iranian history, but this issue is more harmful in modern society,” Hekmat said in a press conference after the premiere of her film.

“The second issue of the film is rape and it would result in a rape tsunami if all Iranian women didn’t break their silence and not publicize the issue,” she added.

Hekmat and her film’s stars, wearing black the press conference, associated what had occurred at the Golden Globes red carpet in solidarity with the Time’s Up campaign to fight sexual harassment in the workplace.

However, she refused to comment about the resemblance and said that they will have a surprise for people in the special programs arranged for the public screening of the movie.

A poster for “The Abandoned Road”, which was published last week, bears #MeToo inscriptions in various sizes.

The post Iranian movie centers on sexual assault, culture of silence appeared first on Iran News Daily.

The post Docunight to screen ‘A Waltz for Tehran’, ‘Night Shift’ appeared first on Iran News Daily.

The nominees are writer Hamid Hesam, painter Hassan Ruholamin, filmmaker Mohammad-Hossein Mahdavian, graphic designer Mohammadreza Doostmohammadi and documentarian Mehdi Naqavian.

A jury composed of sixty members nominated Hesam for “When the Moonlight Was Missing”, a book which carries the memories of veteran Ali Khoshlafz who was seriously wounded in the 1980-1988 Iran–Iraq war.

Ruholamin was selected for his paintings of the Islamic and religious topics such as “The Sky Fell Down”, a large painting depicting the last moments of the life of Imam Hussein (AS).

Mahdavian was nominated for “The Midday Event”, a political drama that features the terrorist atrocity of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization in Iran of the 1980s.

Naqavian received the nomination for his “Out of View”, a documentary series focusing on the unrest that erupted after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of the June 12 presidential election in 2009.

The winner will be announced on the last day of the Islamic Revolution Art Week, which will be held in Tehran from April 9 to 16.

The post Nominees for Islamic Revolution Artist of the Year title announced appeared first on Iran News Daily.

About 90 paintings, illuminations, drawings, photos and graphic designs by 18 artists have been selected for the exhibit, the organizers have announced.

The opening ceremony on Friday was attended by chamber director Nurettin Ozdebir, Iran’s cultural attaché Hossein Safarkhani and the participating artists.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Ozdebir stated that every individual knows that Iran has succeeded in fine arts.

Ozdebir hoped the exhibition would help introduce Iranian culture and art to art lovers in Ankara.

The exhibit will run until February 9.

The post Ankara exhibition showcases works by Iranian artists appeared first on Iran News Daily.