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Iranian films to compete in Parisian festival

TEHRAN – Three Iranian films will compete in various sections of the 37th Creteil International Women’s Film Festival in Paris during March. 

 

Director Narges Abyar’s “Objects in Mirror” and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s “Mainline” will be screened in the main competition section and Marjan Riahi’s “Iranian Ninja” will be shown in the documentary section.

 

Also known as “Films de Femmes”, the annual event will be held from March 13 to 22.

 

 

Iran ready to help rescue Iraqi cultural heritage

TEHRAN – The director of Iran’s Cultural Heritage Tourism and Handicrafts Organization, Masud Soltanifar, has said that Iran is ready to help rescue the Iraqi artifacts threatened by the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

 

“In a letter, which we will send today to Iraqi officials, we wrote that Iran is ready to help Iran transfer the artifacts in peril to a safe haven in Iran,” Soltanifar stated on Sunday during the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of Iranian archaeologists that was held at the National Museum of Iran.

 

ISIL released a video on Thursday screening its militants storm Mosul’s central museum and demolishing statues and artifacts that date back thousands of years.

 

 

Tehran exhibit to display Persian handicrafts 

TEHRAN - An exhibition of Persian handicrafts will open tomorrow at the Qasr Garden Museum in Tehran. 

 

The exhibition will run until March 9 at the museum located on the eastern end of Motahari Ave.

 

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