“The Ah with a Sheen” appeals to Russian translator

March 2, 2015, 11:19 am

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TEHRAN – Russian scholar Alexander Androshkin plans to translate Iranian writer Mohammad-Kazem Mazinani’s acclaimed novel “The Ah with a Sheen” into Russian.

 

He is scheduled to begin the translation of the book next month, Sureh-Mehr, the Iranian publisher of the novel, announced on Sunday. 

 

Androshkin is expected to complete the translation of the book by August.

 

The book will be published by the Islamic Culture Research Foundation in Moscow and is also scheduled to be displayed at the 28th Moscow International Book Fair in September. 

 

The novel is about the activities of a left-wing revolutionary with a communist background during the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last monarch of Iran.

 

“The Ah with a Sheen” is actually a sequel to Mazinani’s earlier novel entitled “The Shah without a Sheen” that was published by Sureh-Mehr in 2011.

 

Both titles “The Shah without a Sheen”, and “The Ah with a Sheen” are subtle plays on words. 

 

“Sheen” is a letter of the Persian alphabet that represents the sound of the combination of letters “sh” in English. If the combined letters “sh” are dropped from the word “shah” only the letters “ah” remain, and “ah” means sorrow in Persian. “Ah” with a “sheen” forms the Persian word “shah”.

 

In September 2014, “The Ah with a Sheen” shared the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award, Iran’s most lucrative literary prize, with Abutorab Khosravi’s “Angels of Punishment”.

 

Earlier in July 2014, Iran’s Pen Association also honored Mazinani with a Golden Pen Award for the novel.

 

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Italian artist finishes first at Kish sculpture symposium

March 2, 2015, 11:29 am

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TEHRAN – Italian sculptor Alessio Ranaldi won first prize at the 1st Kish International Sculpture Symposium, the organizers announced on Monday.

 

Earlier in October 2014, Ranaldi also won first prize at the Sixth Tehran International Sculpture Symposium. 

 

Shahriar Rezai from Iran was presented second prize, and Viktar Kopach from Belarus and Mario Lopes from Portugal shared third prize.

 

Artists from Iran, Italy, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Germany, Portugal, Belarus, Spain, Costa Rica, Serbia, Georgia, Hungary and Austria participated in the symposium, which was held on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf from February 8 to March 1.

 

A jury composed of Iranian sculptors Saeid Shahlapur, and Seyyed Mohammad Beheshti, and U.S sculptor John M. Weidman assessed the works created during the event, which was organized by the Kish Free Zone Organization (KFZO). 

 

Earlier in February, secretary of the symposium Seyyed Mojtaba Musavi expressed hope that the event would continue annually with an aim to embellish the urban areas across Kish Island.

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Turkmenistan to host Iranian cultural festival

TEHRAN – An Iranian cultural festival will be held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from March 5 to 9, the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) announced on Tuesday.

Exhibitions of Persian artworks and handicrafts, and musical performances have been arranged for the festival.


“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” to go on screen in Tehran

TEHRAN - Chad Friedrich’s “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, a 2011 documentary detailing the history of a housing complex in the U.S., will be screened today at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in the United States.

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure among architects, politicians and policy makers.


Director of CHTHO attends Berlin tourism festival

TEHRAN – The director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO), Masoud Soltanifar, arrived in Germany early on Tuesday to attend the opening ceremony of the Internationale Tourismus Borse (ITB) in Berlin.

He also plans to enter into talks with a number of international tourism organizations and companies to discuss ways to expand relations.   

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Memoirs of former Israeli ambassador to Iran published in Tehran

March 3, 2015, 1:51 pm

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TEHRAN - Memoires of former Israeli ambassador to Iran Meir Ezri has recently been published in Tehran.

The informative memoirs “Anyone of His People Among You”, which was published in Hebrew in Israel in 2001, were translated by Iranian scholar Gholamreza Emami.

He renamed the book “Memoirs of Meir Ezri” for Persian publication. Tehran-based company Elm is the publisher of the book.

Ezri was former Israeli ambassador to Iran during the days of Iran’s last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

He was an Iranian-born Israeli who immigrated to Israel in the early 1950s. He was sent back to Iran in 1958 to serve as Israeli’s first ambassador in order to bridge between Iran and the Zionist regime. Ezri held the position until 1975.

“In his book, Ezri reveals all secret and open relations between the Zionist regime and the Pahlavi government,” Emami told the Persian service of ILNA on Monday.

He said that Ezri played a key role to facilitate migration of Iranian Jews to Palestine.
   
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“I’m Alive” to be introduced at London Book Fair

March 3, 2015, 1:57 pm

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TEHRAN – Iran’s Gazelle Literary Agency is scheduled to introduce “I’m Alive”, the memoirs of Masumeh Abad during her long captivity in Iraq during the 1980s, at the London Book Fair.

“We plan to distribute an excerpt from the book in English among different publishers, which will attend the fair,” director of the agency Alireza Rabbani told the Persian service of ISNA on Tuesday.

Rabbani said that the agency will send 90 different titles of Iranian books to the fair, which will run from April 14 to 16.

“I’m Alive” was published in 2013 by Boruj Publications, and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei wrote a commendation for the book the same year.

“I read the book with mixed emotions of sadness and pride, and sometimes from behind a veil of tears, and highly praise that patience and endurance which visualized beauty, ugliness, pain and joy in an artistic way,” the Leader wrote.
 
He said that “I’m Alive” is an important book, which should be translated into other languages.
 
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Tehran animation festival announces international lineup

March 3, 2015, 8:59 pm

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TEHRAN – A selection of 19 animated movies from international directors are scheduled to go on screen in the international section of the 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, the organizers announced on Tuesday.

 

“Rabbit and Deer” by Peter Vacz from Hungary, “Wind” by Robert Lobel from Germany, “Dog” by Marc Riba and Anna Solanas from Spain, “The Missing Scarf” by Eoin Duffy from Ireland, “The Wires” by Tatiana Moshkova and Marina Moshkova from Russia, and “Rabbitland” by Ana Nedeljkovic and Nikola Majdak from Serbia are among the highlights of the lineup.

 

Also included are “Kali, the Little Vampire” by Regina Pessoa from Portugal, “Bear Story” by Gabriel Antonio from Chile, and “The Rose of Turaida” by Ryan Grobins from Australia.

 

Over 130 works have been chosen to go on screen in Iran’s main competition section of the festival, which will be held from March 8 to 12.

 

Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, who won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1999 for his “The Old Man and the Sea”, has been invited to hold workshops during the festival.

 

The animations are scheduled to go on screen in seven different theaters across the city.

 

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Iranian girl honored at Polish art biennial

March 3, 2015, 1:49 pm

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TEHRAN -- Nine-year-old Iranian girl Zahra Safari has won a top prize at the 19th International Biennial of Children’s and Young People’s Graphic Art held in Torun, Poland.

Zahra is a member of the Kermanshah branch of Iran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA), the IIDCYA reported on Monday.

Her work depicts a number of people, birds, cars and flowers beneath a towering mountain range. The design hints at the hustle and bustle of modern life.

Five other Iranian children, namely Bahar Raznahan, Jeyhun Diechi, Golsa Panahi and Amir-Hossein Piri, also received honorable mentions at the biennial.

The event was organized by the Children’s Creative Art Centre and Gallery, a cultural institution in Torun that has been active for 50 years.

Children from 43 countries submitted over 10,000 works to the biennial and 1153 were selected to be showcased at the event.

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Fajr Intl. Festival of Visual Arts honors art luminaries

March 4, 2015, 5:11 pm

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TEHRAN – A number of art luminaries and artists were honored during the closing ceremony of the 7th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts held at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Tuesday.

 

The ceremony was attended by Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati, Director of the Center for Visual Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Majid Mollanoruzi, and Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Ali Moradkhani, Persian media reported.

 

Calligrapher Abbas Akhavein, photographer Seifollah Samadian, miniaturist Ardeshir Mojarrad, ceramist Maryam Salur and cartoonist Gholamali Latifi were among the luminaries honored at the ceremony.

 

Also included were graphic designer Qobad Shiva, painter Mehdi Hosseini, sculptor Malek-Dadyar Garusian and illustrator Ali-Akbar Sadeqi.

 

Graphic designer Bijan Seifuri, ceramist Rasul Jalili, photographer Amir-Ali Javadian and sculptor Reza Lavasani were the honorees of the visual art section.

 

In addition, several organizations and art institutes   were honored at the ceremony. 

 

Iran’s Graphic Design Association was selected as the best association, while Damonfar Painting Biennial was honored as the best artistic event.

 

Other organizations included Tehran Municipality’s Beautification Organization.

 

Former secretary of the festival Abbas Mirhashemi was also honored at the ceremony.

 

The festival ran from February 3 to March 3 in different art centers across Tehran.

 

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March 4, 2015, 5:10 pm

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“Today” to compete in European festivals 

 

TEHRAN – Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi’s acclaimed drama “Today” will compete in two European film festivals in late March.

 

The film will first be screened at the 4th edition of the Curacao International Film Festival Rotterdam, which is scheduled to be held in the Netherlands from March 25 to 29.

 

It then will compete in the 10th Panorama of Maghreb and Middle-Eastern Cinema, which will be held in Paris from March 31 to April 19. 

 

Iranian films line up for Irish festival

 

TEHRAN – A number of Iranian movies will be screened at the Silk Road Film Festival (SRFF), which will be held in Dublin from March 18th to 22.

 

The lineup includes Nima Javidi’s “Melbourne”, Abbas Kiarostami’s “Shirin”, Kambozia Partovi’s “Cafe Transit”, Rakhshan Banietemad’s “Tales” and Babak Nazari’s animated film “Sugarland”.

 

The annual SRFF welcomes films from countries, which were part of the historical network of the Silk Road that connected China, Persia and the Middle East to the Mediterranean and European world.

 

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Over 30 Iranian companies participate in Tehran animation market

March 4, 2015, 5:09 pm

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TEHRAN – Over 30 Iranian animation companies will offer their latest productions at the 4th National Animation Market of Iran.

 

The market is scheduled to be held in Tehran from March 9 to 12 on the sidelines of the 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, the secretary of the festival, Mohammadreza Karimi-Saremi, said in a press release on Wednesday.

 

Foreign companies and animators can also participate in the market, he added.

 

The festival will be held at the Artistic Creation Center of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).

 

Seven theaters across the city will also screen a selection of foreign and Iranian animated movies during the festival.

 

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Miniature collection to highlight life of Imam Reza (AS)

March 4, 2015, 5:12 pm

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TEHRAN – Imam Reza (AS) International Foundation has commissioned young Iranian miniaturist Mehdi Farrokhi to paint tableaus on the life of the eighth Imam of Shia Muslims, Imam Reza (AS). 

 

“Ten significant topics related to life of Imam such as his journey to Khorasan, his imamate, his sister  Hazrat Masumeh (SA), and his Holy Shrine (in Mashhad) are the highlights of the paintings,” managing director of the foundation said in a press release published on Wednesday.

 

“A beautiful sentence describing each painting will also be added beneath each work in Persian, Arabic and English,” Javad Jafari added.

 

Making use of artistic forms helps to better promote the religious concept, he said.

 

He also added that the artworks are due to be unveiled during a ceremony in summer, beginning with the birth anniversary of Hazrat Masumeh (SA), which falls in August.

 

The artworks are due to go on display in different exhibits in Iran and other countries.

 

A book of the miniature works is also due to be published.

 

 

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Ali Rahbari returns to restore Tehran Symphony Orchestra

March 4, 2015, 5:15 pm

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TEHRAN -- Vienna-based Iranian maestro Ali Rahbari has returned to his homeland to restore the Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO), a mission that he once left unfinished in 2005.

 

The director of the Music Office of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance attended a press conference on Wednesday to announced Rahbari’s appointment as the conductor and the artistic director of the orchestra.

 

Rahbari, who also attended the press conference, said, “The Culture Ministry is not an entertainment agency.”

 

“Due to the tax people pay, the ministry has a duty to raise people’s culture. Thus I wish the musicians working with the orchestra can play at an international level and we can perform at the most prestigious European halls in the near future,” he added.

 

In 2004, just a year before the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the presidential election, Rahbari was invited from Austria to reorganize the TSO, but he quit the following year over the low salaries paid to the orchestra’s musicians.

 

Afterward, Nader Mashayekhi, another Austrian-based Iranian musician and conductor, took the helm at the orchestra. In July 2007, Mashayekhi was dismissed following his complaints over low salaries and delays in payment of wages to the musicians.

 

The TSO spent several months without any permanent conductor until Sahbaii was appointed to conduct the TSO in January 2008.

 

In early May 2010, Sahbaii also stopped conducting the symphony for “administrative problems and other difficulties.”

 

Afterwards, guest conductors from Iran and several European countries led the orchestra in occasional concerts.

 

Months after Hassan Rouhani won the 2013 presidential election, Sahbaii was selected once again to restore the orchestra, which had almost been dismantled over the past five years.

 

However, it was not enough to break the spell and Rahbari came.

 

“We should be proud of a president [Rouhani], who talked about the restoration of orchestras in the country during his official speech after winning the presidential election, even if his wish is not fulfilled,” Rahbari said.

 

Rahbari plans to perform the Symphony No. 9, Ludwig van Beethoven’s final complete symphony, during his new collaboration with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra.

 

“This concert means the fulfillment of the wish of the president, who has many opponents,” Rahbari stated. 

 

“But in my opinion, the concert could be an appropriate way for the activities of our musicians to be widely disseminated in the world,” he added.

 

He asked Iranian musicians to participate in the tests that he plans to hold to select members for the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. 

 

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Turkmenistan to host Iranian cultural festival

TEHRAN – An Iranian cultural festival will be held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from March 5 to 9, the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) announced on Tuesday.

Exhibitions of Persian artworks and handicrafts, and musical performances have been arranged for the festival.


“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” to go on screen in Tehran

TEHRAN - Chad Friedrich’s “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, a 2011 documentary detailing the history of a housing complex in the U.S., will be screened today at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in the United States.

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure among architects, politicians and policy makers.


Director of CHTHO attends Berlin tourism festival

TEHRAN – The director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO), Masoud Soltanifar, arrived in Germany early on Tuesday to attend the opening ceremony of the Internationale Tourismus Borse (ITB) in Berlin.

He also plans to enter into talks with a number of international tourism organizations and companies to discuss ways to expand relations.   

The ITB covers all aspects of travel and tourism including countries, tour operators, booking system developers, airlines, hotels and other businesses concerned with the tourism industry.

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TEHRAN - Memoires of former Israeli ambassador to Iran Meir Ezri has recently been published in Tehran.

The informative memoirs “Anyone of His People Among You”, which was published in Hebrew in Israel in 2001, were translated by Iranian scholar Gholamreza Emami.

He renamed the book “Memoirs of Meir Ezri” for Persian publication. Tehran-based company Elm is the publisher of the book.

Ezri was former Israeli ambassador to Iran during the days of Iran’s last monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

He was an Iranian-born Israeli who immigrated to Israel in the early 1950s. He was sent back to Iran in 1958 to serve as Israeli’s first ambassador in order to bridge between Iran and the Zionist regime. Ezri held the position until 1975.

“In his book, Ezri reveals all secret and open relations between the Zionist regime and the Pahlavi government,” Emami told the Persian service of ILNA on Monday.

He said that Ezri played a key role to facilitate migration of Iranian Jews to Palestine.
   
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“I’m Alive” to be introduced at London Book Fair

March 3, 2015, 1:57 pm

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TEHRAN – Iran’s Gazelle Literary Agency is scheduled to introduce “I’m Alive”, the memoirs of Masumeh Abad during her long captivity in Iraq during the 1980s, at the London Book Fair.

“We plan to distribute an excerpt from the book in English among different publishers, which will attend the fair,” director of the agency Alireza Rabbani told the Persian service of ISNA on Tuesday.

Rabbani said that the agency will send 90 different titles of Iranian books to the fair, which will run from April 14 to 16.

“I’m Alive” was published in 2013 by Boruj Publications, and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei wrote a commendation for the book the same year.

“I read the book with mixed emotions of sadness and pride, and sometimes from behind a veil of tears, and highly praise that patience and endurance which visualized beauty, ugliness, pain and joy in an artistic way,” the Leader wrote.
 
He said that “I’m Alive” is an important book, which should be translated into other languages.
 
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TEHRAN – A selection of 19 animated movies from international directors are scheduled to go on screen in the international section of the 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, the organizers announced on Tuesday.

 

“Rabbit and Deer” by Peter Vacz from Hungary, “Wind” by Robert Lobel from Germany, “Dog” by Marc Riba and Anna Solanas from Spain, “The Missing Scarf” by Eoin Duffy from Ireland, “The Wires” by Tatiana Moshkova and Marina Moshkova from Russia, and “Rabbitland” by Ana Nedeljkovic and Nikola Majdak from Serbia are among the highlights of the lineup.

 

Also included are “Kali, the Little Vampire” by Regina Pessoa from Portugal, “Bear Story” by Gabriel Antonio from Chile, and “The Rose of Turaida” by Ryan Grobins from Australia.

 

Over 130 works have been chosen to go on screen in Iran’s main competition section of the festival, which will be held from March 8 to 12.

 

Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, who won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1999 for his “The Old Man and the Sea”, has been invited to hold workshops during the festival.

 

The animations are scheduled to go on screen in seven different theaters across the city.

 

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Iranian girl honored at Polish art biennial

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TEHRAN -- Nine-year-old Iranian girl Zahra Safari has won a top prize at the 19th International Biennial of Children’s and Young People’s Graphic Art held in Torun, Poland.

Zahra is a member of the Kermanshah branch of Iran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA), the IIDCYA reported on Monday.

Her work depicts a number of people, birds, cars and flowers beneath a towering mountain range. The design hints at the hustle and bustle of modern life.

Five other Iranian children, namely Bahar Raznahan, Jeyhun Diechi, Golsa Panahi and Amir-Hossein Piri, also received honorable mentions at the biennial.

The event was organized by the Children’s Creative Art Centre and Gallery, a cultural institution in Torun that has been active for 50 years.

Children from 43 countries submitted over 10,000 works to the biennial and 1153 were selected to be showcased at the event.

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TEHRAN – A number of art luminaries and artists were honored during the closing ceremony of the 7th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts held at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Tuesday.

 

The ceremony was attended by Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati, Director of the Center for Visual Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Majid Mollanoruzi, and Deputy Culture Minister for Artistic Affairs Ali Moradkhani, Persian media reported.

 

Calligrapher Abbas Akhavein, photographer Seifollah Samadian, miniaturist Ardeshir Mojarrad, ceramist Maryam Salur and cartoonist Gholamali Latifi were among the luminaries honored at the ceremony.

 

Also included were graphic designer Qobad Shiva, painter Mehdi Hosseini, sculptor Malek-Dadyar Garusian and illustrator Ali-Akbar Sadeqi.

 

Graphic designer Bijan Seifuri, ceramist Rasul Jalili, photographer Amir-Ali Javadian and sculptor Reza Lavasani were the honorees of the visual art section.

 

In addition, several organizations and art institutes   were honored at the ceremony. 

 

Iran’s Graphic Design Association was selected as the best association, while Damonfar Painting Biennial was honored as the best artistic event.

 

Other organizations included Tehran Municipality’s Beautification Organization.

 

Former secretary of the festival Abbas Mirhashemi was also honored at the ceremony.

 

The festival ran from February 3 to March 3 in different art centers across Tehran.

 

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“Today” to compete in European festivals 

 

TEHRAN – Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi’s acclaimed drama “Today” will compete in two European film festivals in late March.

 

The film will first be screened at the 4th edition of the Curacao International Film Festival Rotterdam, which is scheduled to be held in the Netherlands from March 25 to 29.

 

It then will compete in the 10th Panorama of Maghreb and Middle-Eastern Cinema, which will be held in Paris from March 31 to April 19. 

 

Iranian films line up for Irish festival

 

TEHRAN – A number of Iranian movies will be screened at the Silk Road Film Festival (SRFF), which will be held in Dublin from March 18th to 22.

 

The lineup includes Nima Javidi’s “Melbourne”, Abbas Kiarostami’s “Shirin”, Kambozia Partovi’s “Cafe Transit”, Rakhshan Banietemad’s “Tales” and Babak Nazari’s animated film “Sugarland”.

 

The annual SRFF welcomes films from countries, which were part of the historical network of the Silk Road that connected China, Persia and the Middle East to the Mediterranean and European world.

 

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TEHRAN – Over 30 Iranian animation companies will offer their latest productions at the 4th National Animation Market of Iran.

 

The market is scheduled to be held in Tehran from March 9 to 12 on the sidelines of the 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, the secretary of the festival, Mohammadreza Karimi-Saremi, said in a press release on Wednesday.

 

Foreign companies and animators can also participate in the market, he added.

 

The festival will be held at the Artistic Creation Center of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).

 

Seven theaters across the city will also screen a selection of foreign and Iranian animated movies during the festival.

 

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