TMCA to screen “Ashes of Time”

TEHRAN – Hong Kong director and writer Wong Kar-wai’s 1994 film “Ashes of Time” will go on screen at the cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art today at 5 p.m.
The story of the movie is set in China during ancient times. It is loosely based on four characters from Jin Yong’s novel “The Legend of the Condor Heroes”.


“The Victors” coming to Tehran theater

TEHRAN – A troupe led by Iranian director Manuchehr Hadi will go on stage at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center today to perform renowned French playwright Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Victors”.

The troupe composed of Yekta Naser, Kazem Baluchi, Mojtaba Tahmures, Rasul Najafian, Sina Razani, Sirus Hemmati and several others has been rehearsing the play over the past few months.

Some visually-impaired people have been also invited for the premiere of the play.

Originally staged in 1941 as “Morts sans sepulture”, the two-act play centers on a group of five French Partisans stopped by militia forces. While waiting to be interviewed each finds himself alone with his doubts.


“A Visit from the Goon Squad” hits Iranian book stores

TEHRAN - American writer Jennifer Egan’s widely acclaimed novel “A Visit from the Goon Squad” has recently been published in Persian by Shurafarin Publications.

Rendered into Persian by Fatemeh Rahimibalai, the novel won National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2010, and Pulitzer Prize also for fiction in 2011.

In the book, Egan brilliantly reveals the pasts of Bennie, an aging former record executive, and Sasha, a troubled young woman he employs. “A Visit from the Goon Squad” is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.


“Track 143” to compete in Japanese filmfest

TEHRAN - Iranian filmmaker Narges Abyar’s acclaimed drama “Track 143” will go on screen at the Aichi
International Women’s Film Festival (AIWFF), which is scheduled to be held in the Japanese city of Nagoya from September 1 to 6.

Based on a book with the same title written by Abyar, “Track 143” is about a great maternal sacrifice during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. It tells the story of Olfat, a woman who is waiting for her son, who has been missing in action, to return home.

Merila Zarei won the Crystal Simorgh for best actress for her portrayal of Olfat in the movie at the 32nd Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran in February 2014.

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