Iranian movie wins award at Houston festival
TEHRAN – The Iranian director Ali Kalantari’s debut film “This Film Must Not Be Watched” has won the Platinum Remi Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. The film, which was...
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UNESCO director-general to visit Isfahan
TEHRAN -- UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova will be coming to Iran next week to attend the Isfahan Cultural Week, which will be held from April 23 to 30. Foreign diplomats and a numbers of foreign...
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Watercolor painting in Iran has regressed: artist
TEHRAN – The Iranian artist Kurosh Aslani has said that watercolor painting has regressed in Iran over the past few years. Various factors have helped the medium of watercolor become obsolete in...
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Poster exhibit promoting campaign against decline in Iran’s birth rate underway
TEHRAN -- A poster exhibition promoting the campaign against the decline in the birth rate in Iran was opened in Tehran on Sunday by former chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. Speaking during the...
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ICRO assigned to organize intl. section of Tehran Quran exhibition TEHRAN – The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has assigned the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) to hold the...
View ArticleAvaz ensemble to perform in Turkey in late May
TEHRAN -- Avaz, an ensemble composed of Iranian and Turkish musicians, will be giving concerts in several cities in Turkey late May. The concerts will begin at the Middle East Technical University in...
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Pottery, calligraphic paintings on display at Saba Institute
TEHRAN -- Tehran’s Saba Art and Cultural Institute is currently hosting an exhibition of pottery and calligraphic paintings by two artists from Tabriz in the northwestern Iranian province of East...
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IRIB will lift ban on “Ancient Land” after modification: official
TEHRAN -- The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) will lift the ban on “Ancient Land” after some modifications are made to the docudrama, IRIB Deputy Director Ali Darabi said on Tuesday....
View ArticleTehran gallery asks male, female artists to paint their impressions of...
TEHRAN – Tehran’s Shila Gallery has called upon a number of eminent Iranian male and female painters to express their impressions of the opposite gender by means of their works, which will be put on...
View Article“The Theft” wins awards at Serbian festival
TEHRAN – The Iranian short film “The Theft” has won two awards at the Prokuplje Short Film Festival in Serbia. The film received the awards for best fiction film and audience favorite film of the...
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Tehran City Council to investigate Tanavoli museum row
Tehran -- The director of the Art Committee of the Tehran City Council Abdolhossein Mokhtabad has said that the committee will assign a team to investigate the dispute between sculptor Parviz Tanavoli...
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UNESCO director-general, Iranian foreign minister open exhibition of...
TEHRAN -- UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif opened an exhibition of a collection of historical maps in Tehran on Saturday. Iranian officials and...
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IIDCYA unveils Spanish versions of 23 Iranian children’s books
TEHRAN –Spanish translation of 23 Iranian children’s books were unveiled during a ceremony at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) in Tehran on Saturday....
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Tehran Peace Museum to host anti-war poster exhibition TEHRAN – The Tehran Peace Museum will put a collection of anti-war posters by Iranian artist Behnaz Nik-Khah Monfared on display in an...
View Article“Painting Pool” to go on screen at Shanghai festival
TEHRAN – Iranian director Maziar Miri’s family drama “The Painting Pool” will compete in the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, which will be held from June 14 to 22. Starring Shahab...
View ArticleAfghanistan to be guest of honor at Tehran Book Fair
TEHRAN -- Afghanistan will be the guest of honor at the 27th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF), which will be held from April 30 to May 10. A large group of Afghan publishers and literati has...
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“Minus 30” opens Tehran Graphic Design Week
TEHRAN – The Tehran Graphic Design Week opened at the Iranian Artists Forum on Sunday with a display of posters by a group of young artists in an exhibition entitled “Minus 30”. Works by 168 graphic...
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Iranian company, Metropolitan Museum publish rare copy of Shahnameh
TEHRAN -- “The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp”, a rare copy of the epic masterpiece of Ferdowsi, the Shahnameh (The Book of Kings), has recently been published by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and...
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Iran’s Leila Hatami on Cannes panel
Tehran Leila Hatami, the star of the Oscar-winning Iranian drama “A Separation”, has been selected for the jury of the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival, the organizers announced on Monday. The New...
View Article“All the Winters” to compete in Montreal filmfest
TEHRAN – The Iranian animation “All the Winters I Haven’t Seen” will go on screen at the 37th Montreal World Film Festival, which will be held in Canada from August 21 to September 1. Directed by Omid...
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