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Iranian director Shahram Mokri awarded at Hanoi festival

TEHRAN – Iranian filmmaker Shahram Mokri has won the best director award for his acclaimed psychodrama “Fish and Cat” at the 3rd Hanoi International Film Festival in Vietnam.

 

“The Two Women” by Vera Glagoleva from Russia was named as the best film at the festival, which was held from November 23 to 27.

 

“Fish and Cat” tells the story of a group of students who travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation from which the students cannot escape.

 

Tehran institute to review Alfons Gabriel’s books on Iran

TEHRAN – Books by the Austrian geographer and travel writer Alfons Gabriel (1894–1976) will be reviewed in a session at Tehran’s Book City Institute on December 2.

 

The Austrian author Bernhard Wieder along with the Iranian poet Shams Langrudi, scholar Mehdi Mohabbati and translator Mojtaba Abdollahnejad will attend the session.

 

Alfons Gabriel made several trips to the deserts of Iran during the 1920s and 1930s. The account of his trips was published in five books. 

 

His book “Durch Persiens Wüsten” (1935) was previously translated into Persian.

 

Seyhun Gallery opens new branch in Tehran

TEHRAN – A new branch of Tehran’s Seyhun Gallery was inaugurated in the city on Friday by displaying works of a group of painters. 

 

Paintings by artists, including Puya Aryanpur, Negareh Ayatollahi, Ali Ettehad, Abdi Asbaqi, and Afshin Pirhashemi, were put on display at Seyhun Gallery II.

 

The gallery is located at 24 Sinaii Alley, off Keyhan St. and Moqaddas-e Ardabili Ave.

 

Seyhun Gallery, which was established by Masumeh Seyhun in 1963, is located on 4th Alley, off Vozara St.

 

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