Docufiction spotlights Iranian traditional bull contest
TEHRAN – Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Sabur has recently made a docufiction that puts its spotlight on a traditional style of bull contest common to the rural societies in Gilan Province. Sabur spent two years making the film “Varza Contest”, she said in a press release on Monday. Iranian people in the regions of Gilan, Mazandaran […]
Iranian documentary play spotlights women drug abuse
TEHRAN – A documentary theater focusing on the moral inferiority of homeless women caused by drug addiction and prostitution in a slum neighborhood in southern Tehran was staged at the 36th Fajr International Theater Festival last week. Director Amin Miri with his cast and research team spent over 18 months interviewing 53 women living in […]
Expo to put spotlight on healthy food, healthy life
TEHRAN — Good nutrition and healthy food is our first defense against disease and our source of energy to live and be active. Nutritional problems caused by an inadequate diet can be of many sorts, and when they affect a generation of youngsters, they can lower their learning capacities, thus compromising their futures, perpetuating a […]