Art And Culture

Submissions have been invited for the 6th International Urban Film Festival in Tehran.

The festival is slated for July 23-August 6. The deadline for receiving the films is June 15,…

More than 12,000 professionals, including 3,200 producers, 1,200 salesmen, 1,750 buyers and 800 festival organizers, will come together at this year’s Cannes Film Market, the business part of the…

A solo painting exhibition ‘Girls of Turquoise Land’ by Iranian painter, miniaturist and calligrapher Behzad Bozorgi, 45, is underway at Vali Art Gallery in north Tehran.

The exhibit opened…

Illustrator and author Morteza Sohi is conducting a meeting today in Tehran on the subject ‘Visual Perception and Aesthetic Structure in Book Illustration.’

A new perspective of the so-called ‘Jungle Movement’ in Gilan has been released by Tehran-based Namak Publication.

It deals with a small part of history between 1915 and 1921 based on the…

The Italian translation of the book ‘Homay and Homayoun’ written by famous Persian poet and mystic Khwaju Kermani (1280–1352) will be unveiled in Tehran on May 10.

Actress and theater director Bahareh Rahnama will stage her new play ‘The Other’ at Iranshahr Theater from May 11. Written in 2006 by French writer Enzo Cormann, ‘The Other’ deals with the issue…

There are about 3 million files in the national archives, said Shahram Yousefipour, deputy for document affairs at the National Library and Archives Organization of Iran on Tuesday, on the occasion…

Playwright, theater director and actor Qotbeddin Sadeqi’s play currently on stage in Tehran, is inspired by a historical book that has survived from the early years of the Mongol era in Iran (1219…

A solo painting exhibition featuring a series of experimental works by globally acclaimed Iranian professor of cardiovascular surgery Hormoz  Mehmanesh, 60, will be hosted at e 1 Art…

The music band Ronak will stage a concert of four different genres at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall.

Slated for May 24 at 9:30 pm, Ronak will perform pieces in the genres of traditional music,…

‘Kupal,’ an environmental feature film by director and writer Kazem Mollai will be presented at the 6th edition of Iran International Green Film Festival (IIGFF), slated for July 22-28 in Tehran…

Photographer, script writer, director and producer of documentary films Mohsen Sakha is close to completion of the shooting sessions for his latest documentary ‘Green Marriage.’

Green…

Four new potential blockbusters will hit the cinema screens from Wednesday, May 10.

Filmmaker Narges Abyar will attend a seminar on the ‘representation of gender in cinema’ at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

At the event on May 8-9 at the Faculty of…

The 1882 drama ‘An Enemy of the People’ by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) will be staged in Tehran at Molavi Theater.

Directed by theater director and actor Sina Rastgou, it…

The Iranian documentary ‘Overruled’ will compete in the 4th International Afghan Documentary Film Festival (ADFF) in Stockholm.

German researcher Ulrich Marzolph, who has devoted half his life to Iranian literature and folklore, will speak in Tehran about a valuable lithograph.

Marzolph’s lecture is planned for…

The works of 60 artists from across the world, inspired by female personalities who have paved the way for girls and women today, are on display at the Untitled Space gallery in New York.

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Heavy rainfall at Shahr-e-Aftab (Sun City) Complex on the third evening of the 30th Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) on Friday, May 5, created havoc at the foreign and children publishers…

The music band Darkoob will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a concert featuring popular cinema actor Hamed Behdad.

The event is slated for May 26 at Milad Tower in Tehran. Behdad, 43,…

Roudaki Hall in Tehran will host Azeri folk concert on May 9-10 at 9 pm, featuring an internationally acclaimed musician from Azerbaijan Republic.

US-based Azeri kamancheh virtuoso Imamyar…

Iranian animated film ‘Release from Heaven,’ written by scriptwriter and film director Majid Asoodegan, 40, and directed by animator and director Ali Noori Oskouee, 36, has reached the lineup for…

The play ‘Blood Wedding’, a tragedy by the late Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) and directed by the Iranian theater director Mohammad Valizadegan is currently on stage at Paliz…

Reza Yazdani, Iranian pop and rock singer, will hold a concert in Vancouver, Canada, on May 28.

Also a musician, composer and actor, Yazdani, 44, has released eight albums and numerous…