Veteran director Ferydoun Jeirani’s latest feature film ‘Asphyxia’ is among the official selection competition line-up for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.
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Iranian short film ‘Alan’ written and directed by Mostafa Gandomkar won the top award at the 14th Konstanz Short Film and Theater Festival held October 21-22 in Germany.
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The 30th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) in Japan opened October 25. The jury for the festival’s main competition section, led by Oscar winner and American actor and filmmaker…
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Iranian artworks at the Christie’s sales of ‘Middle Eastern, Modern and Contemporary Art’ and ‘Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds’ fetched high prices.
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One of the newly-released films in the country is ‘Foot Work’ directed by Mazdak Mir-Abedini.
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‘The Tabarestanis ‘ is a documentary written and directed by Mohsen Abdolvahab, currently on screen.
It is about a group of young engineers who decide to set up a steel mill in a city in…
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Acclaimed painter, caricaturist, illustrator, sculptor and animator Mohammad Ali Baniasadi, 62, will showcase a selection of his paintings at Sareban Art Gallery in Tehran.
The…
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Acclaimed master of contemporary painting, Seyyed Asadollah Shariatpanahi, 79, inaugurates today a café gallery in his hometown Semnan, capital of Semnan Province.
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‘Orsi Khaneh’ building designed by Iranian group Keivani Architects Studio is among the final nominees for the 10th Middle East Architect Awards, slated for Nov. 22, in Dubai.
The…
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The 23rd Tehran Press Exhibition opens on Friday, at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla. The official opening ceremony will be held on Saturday in the presence of a government official, although visitors…
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The smell of gunpowder still lingered at Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, on Oct. 24, hours after China’s Cai Guo-Qiang, famed for his explosive art, put the finishing touch to his show.
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Art and Experience Cinematic Group, in collaboration with German Embassy in Iran, will show six German feature films as well as a documentary for a week in Tehran, Kerman and Shiraz.
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British-based shipwreck hunter David Mearns has found a navigation tool confirmed as the world’s oldest astrolabe discovered.
David Mearns found the bronze disc during a dive on a…
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Avant-garde painter Abolfazl Lireh has set up another exhibition of abstract collages at 7-Samar Art Gallery.
Running through Nov. 1, the event marks a continuation of Lireh’s previous…
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Visual artists Shahriyar Sirous and Pouya Talebi have merged photography with painting and past with present in their joint exhibition.
Titled ‘Abyat (Verses) II,’ the exhibit features a…
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In her latest exhibit at Delgosha Art Gallery, painter Yasaman Nozari has presented a narrative on ‘distance’, in physical and sensory terms.
The exhibition is titled ‘The Hum’. On…
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Sotheby’s auction of ‘20th Century Art: Middle East’ was organized in London on Oct. 23 with Iranian works comprising over 60% worth of sale and a painting by Sohrab Sepehri garnering the…
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Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by auctioning a huge uncut diamond, believed to be one of the world’s largest, in New York in December.
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‘Don’t Let This Dream Come True’, penned and helmed by Mehdi Nassiri, is being performed at City Theater.
In the play, three women in three different episodes try to convince their…
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Majid Alambeigi has directed a play titled ‘Siavash Through Fire’ that is currently being staged at Tehran Theater Campus in southeastern Tehran.
The play is based on a tale in Shahnameh…
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An Iranian edition of the Pulitzer-winning play, ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’, penned by David Mamet, American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director, will go on stage at Payetakht…
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House of Performance is currently hosting the one-actor play ‘Flight No. 745’, written, directed and performed by Marjan Pour-Gholamhossein.
The show gives the account of a girl named…
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A floor mosaic from one of Roman Emperor Caligula’s opulent private ships, which was stolen after World War Two, is on its way back to Italy from the US where it has been recovered from a…
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After over two decades, veteran painter and graphic designer Sadeq Barirani has set up an exhibition of his artworks, which opens in Tehran on Oct. 26. Bon Art Gallery will host the…
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Iran National Museum will display a collection of ancient artifacts from South Korea in an exhibition slated to open on Nov. 4.
Accompanied by two South Korean representatives, the…
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