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Yesterday 18:31
Fajr film festival to pay tribute to Parviz Purhosseini, Changiz Jalilvand
TEHRAN – The organizers of the 39th Fajr Film Festival plan to commemorate Parviz Purhosseini and Changiz Jalilvand, two cinematic figures who recently died of COVID-19.
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Yesterday 18:30
Martyr Foundation to cooperate with 39th Fajr Intl. Theater Festival
TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Martyr Foundation (Bonyad-e Shahid) will be cooperating with the 39th Fajr International Theater Festival, supporting the Soldier of the Revolution, a section dedicated to street theater.
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Yesterday 18:29
Nine artists to receive lifetime achievement honors at Fajr Festival of Visual Arts
TEHRAN – Nine veteran Iranian artists will be honored with lifetime achievement awards at the 13th Fajr Festival of Visual Arts to be held in the Saba Art and Cultural Institute in February.
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2021-01-24 18:56
“Carless Crime”, “Sunless Shadows”, “Tirishko” collect awards at Dhaka festival
TEHRAN – Iranian movies “Carless Crime”, “Sunless Shadows” and “Tirishko” have won awards at the 19th Dhaka International Film Festival in Bangladesh.
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2021-01-24 18:52
Intel. meeting screens animation on earliest example of drama therapy by Avicenna
TEHRAN – The World Alliance of Dramatherapy (WADth) shared “Abu Ali Sina”, an animated movie produced by the Iranian Psychodrama and Drama Therapy Association on one of the earliest examples of drama therapy by Iranian scientist Avicenna during its first seasonal conference on January 22.
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2021-01-24 18:40
Kerman organizing intl. painting contest to boost its child-friendly image
TEHRAN – Kerman, which has been selected as a child-friendly city in a UNICEF pilot plan, intends to organize a children’s painting competition to acknowledge the choice.
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2021-01-23 18:33
Tehran short film festival to review Pier Paolo Pasolini movies
TEHRAN – The 37th edition of the Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF) plans to review short movies by Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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2021-01-23 18:29
Abdolhossein Zarrinkub’s book on Persian Sufism published in Russian
TEHRAN – Prominent Iranian scholar Abdolhossein Zarrinkub’s book on Persian Sufism has recently been published in Russian.
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2021-01-23 18:26
Intl. Silk Road calligraphy exhibition opens in Tehran
TEHRAN – An exhibition of calligraphy works selected from the First Raqs-e Qalam International Exhibition of the Silk Road Calligraphy opened at the Iranian Academy of Arts in Tehran on Friday with a limited number of visitors.
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2021-01-22 18:30
Sixth Intl. Art Festival of Resistance to be held in February
TEHRAN – The sixth International Art Festival of Resistance will be held in Tehran in February with artworks in the forms of painting, poster, sculpture, cartoon and caricature.
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2021-01-22 18:22
French academics to discuss Abolfazl Jalili’s films
TEHRAN – The poetic universe of Iranian filmmaker Abolfazl Jalili will be discussed in a conference, which will be organized by the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim Worlds – Iremam and Aix-Marseille University.
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2021-01-22 18:19
Publishers from Serbia, Italy display latest offerings at Tehran Book Fair
TEHRAN – Dozens of publishers from Serbia and Italy are attending the Tehran International Book Fair displaying their latest offerings at Iran’s most important cultural event that is organized online this year due to the pandemic.
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2021-01-20 18:34
“Bandar Band” named best at Kolkata Intl. Film Festival
TEHRAN – “Bandar Band” by Manijeh Hekmat from Iran has been named best film at the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival.
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2021-01-20 18:29
Iranian photographers honored at Tajik Photo Art
TEHRAN – Iranian photographers have been honored at the 3rd Tajik Photo Art.
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2021-01-20 18:22
Tehran Book Fair organizing 17 intl. webinars
TEHRAN – The virtual edition of the Tehran Book Fair, which opened on Tuesday, is organizing 17 international webinars on various cultural topics.
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2021-01-19 19:18
Tehran virtual book fair kicks off
TEHRAN – The virtual edition of the Tehran Book Fair was inaugurated in a ceremony held at the Iran Book and Literature House on Tuesday.
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2021-01-19 19:16
Neyanban virtuoso Mohsen Sharifian introduces electronic bagpipe
TEHRAN – Neyanban virtuoso Mohsen Sharifian is introducing an electronic version of the Persian instrument.
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2021-01-19 19:11
Seyyed Mostafa Mousavi Sabet
Art exclusively for dealers’ benefit at auctions
TEHRAN – “Art for art’s sake” and “art for people’s sake” are phrases that have been expressed to describe the philosophy of art throughout different periods of history.
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2021-01-18 19:03
Yari festival to open with actor Ali Nasirian’s message
TEHRAN – The 20th edition of the Yari Iranian Film Festival in the Swedish capital of Stockholm will be inaugurated Sunday with the opening message of stage and screen actor Ali Nasirian.
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2021-01-18 19:01
Owj to compete in Fajr festival with seven films
TEHRAN – Seven productions from the Owj Arts and Media Organization, a major institution that produces revolutionary works in art and cinema, will be screened at the 39th Fajr Film Festival.
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2021-01-18 18:57
Iran nominates Zahra Amini for workshop at Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava
TEHRAN – Iran has nominated Zahra Amini for a workshop at the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) announced on Monday.
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2021-01-17 18:58
Tehran Auction grosses about $4 million
TEHRAN – The 13th Tehran Auction has grossed about 880 billion rials (about $4 million based on Iran’s free-market exchange rate: $1 = 221,000 rials).
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2021-01-17 18:54
Iran’s “Coexist”, “Quarantine”, “The Note” honored at Meihodo visual media festival
TEHRAN – “Coexist” by documentarian Komeil Soheili, “Quarantine” by photographer Maryam Saeidpur and “The Note” by photographer Siavash Eydani, all from Iran, have won the top prizes of the Third Annual Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival in Japan.
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2021-01-17 18:50
Spanish translation of “My Uncle Soleimani” appears in Venezuela
TEHRAN – A Spanish translation of “My Uncle Soleimani”, a book that reflects Martyr Qassem Soleimani’s affection for children, has recently been published in Venezuela.
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2021-01-13 18:56
Persian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s stories published in Bangladesh
TEHRAN – A book containing 10 stories by the renowned Iranian novelist and short story writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad has recently been published in the Bengali language in Bangladesh, the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) has announced.
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2021-01-13 18:50
Sculptor Hamid Kangarani deems his wax effigy of Commander Soleimani acceptable
TEHRAN – Sculptor Hamid Kangarani, whose wax effigy of Martyr Qassem Soleimani was unveiled at the Museum of Luminaries at Tehran’s Milad Tower last Saturday, said on Tuesday that his statue is a better likeness of the legendary commander than those inferior statues of him set up across the country following his assassination.
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2021-01-13 18:43
“Dream about Sohrab”, “The Dogs Didn’t Sleep Last Night” picked for Goa filmfest
TEHRAN – Iranian movies “Dream about Sohrab” and “The Dogs Didn’t Sleep Last Night” will be screening at the 51st International Film Festival of India, which will open in Goa on Saturday.
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2021-01-12 18:42
80 foreign publishers to attend Tehran Intl. Book Fair
TEHRAN – 80 foreign publishers will be attending the Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF), which, will go online from January 20 to 25.
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2021-01-12 18:40
Iranian literati to Western scholars: Don’t consider Ferdowsi’s poetry medieval
TEHRAN – Iranian literati have said that the Persian poet Abulqasem Ferdowsi and his epic masterpiece the Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) should not be considered medieval as some Western scholars pursue.
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2021-01-12 18:31
Book on Israel’s targeted assassinations comes to Iranian bookstores
TEHRAN – A book by Ronen Bergman, a military analyst and former journalist and writer with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, on the history of the Zionist regime’s targeted assassinations across the world, has recently been published in Persian.
