Iranian animation ‘A Brief Encounter’ directed by the young illustrator and 2D artist Somayeh Yazdanpanah won the award for Best Animation Short at the Nevermore Film Festival in the US.
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An adapted version of the play ‘Molly Sweeney’ directed by Morteza Mirmontazami will go on stage from February 14 at Iranshahr Theater Hall in Tehran.
Translated by Hamid Amjad, Molly…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on governments to rate all films that show characters smoking “for adults only”. The move will prevent children and adolescents from using various…
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A painting exhibition titled ‘Places Not Gone’ by artist Hamid Hadinejad is underway at Afrand Art Gallery.
The paintings, created by pencil and ink, portray human and animal forms, which…
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Iranian young traditional vocalist Mohammad Motamedi will hold concerts in the US, where accompanied by the Spanish singer Rosario Guerrero, he will present a combination of Iranian classical…
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Renowned Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s upcoming film ‘The Salesman’ has been luring buyers.
Farhadi’s latest work has been presented at the European Film Market (EFM) of the 66th Berlin…
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The historical play ‘Death of Yazdegerd’, directed by Soheil Babaei, will go on stage from February 14 at Sangelag Theater Hall in Tehran.
A brilliant work by outstanding screenwriter…
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The Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO) opened the 31stFajr International Music Festival at Vahdat Hall on Wednesday (Feb. 10).
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The bitter social drama ‘Life+1 Day’ by first timer Saeed Roustaei won a total of nine Crystal Simorgh (Iranian mythical flying creature) awards at the closing ceremony of the 34th Fajr Film…
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A play directed by Masoud Tayyebi, a workshop production with a 23-member cast is in its finishing stages and will go on stage soon.
The project, a combination of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Galileo…
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As part of the Ten-Day Dawn festivities on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran Cultural Week is underway in Ankara.
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A two year project to digitize Iranian newspapers charting the western-backed 1953 coup d’état against Iran’s popularly supported government and the 1979 Islamic Revolution has been launched by…
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The bust of prominent Iranian sculptor and painter, Abolhassan Sadighi (1904-1995), will be unveiled at Roudaki Hall in Tehran at a commemoration ceremony slated for February 20.
The…
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Two venues in Tehran are host to works of the 8th Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts.
‘Fajr and National Art’ is the title for the visual art event inaugurated on February 8 at…
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A photo collection by Iranian photographer, Mohammad Rezqi was recently on view at Arte Gallery in Tehran.
Titled ‘Pieces of the Land,’ the exhibition included 25 items, in three different…
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A pathological play, ‘Rooster’, directed by Sara Karimian Eqbal is on stage at Da Theater Hall in Tehran.
Written by Iranian playwright, Mohammad Rahmanian, the play tries to investigate…
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The first edition of the Persian Gulf Regional Fashion and Clothing Festival opened in the southern city of Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan Province on Monday (Feb. 8).
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An American artist of Iranian stock, Angela Larian, has put her artworks on view at Shirin Art Gallery in New York.
The exhibition features works with various mediums, predominantly large-…
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The third edition of a calligraphy exhibition jointly curated by three well-known painters and graphic designers is underway at Dena Art Gallery in Tehran.
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Iran Painters’ Society (IPS) has launched a 10-day sale of artworks from February 5 to 16 at Iranian Artists Forum’s Momayez Gallery.
On offer are artworks by members of the IPS and other…
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Italian actor Raphael Schumacher has been declared clinically dead after he was choked in a stage hanging scene that went wrong.
The 27-year-old’s family authorized the donation of his…
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A Qur’anic exhibition is currently underway at the Skylight Gallery, San Francisco Public Library in California.
Islamic art and Qur’anic verses are the central theme of the exhibition ‘…
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The play ‘The City of Zombies’, written and directed by Alireza Nazer-Fasihi is on stage at Mehrab Theater Hall in Tehran.
A production of ‘Bedaheh’ (literally improvisation) theater group…
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Two Iranian teenagers received the top prizes in the international section of Japan’s 16th International Environmental Children’s Drawing Contest.
Iran participated in the contest with 25…
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The non-government Institute for Promotion of Contemporary Art has launched an art market dubbed ‘Saturday Art Market’ at Iran Art Gallery in Tehran which offers works of young artists at suitable…
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