MNA 29 short, documentary and feature films, dedicated to Iranian cinema, will be showcased at the 8th RN:CI, the Festival of Iranian Films in Prague, Brno and Bratislava. The eighth edition of rn:Ci, the Festival of Iranian Films, will open in Brno on Jan. 15 and will continue at Bratislava, as well as at other venues in Prague until Jan. 26. The ...

The Cap Times - UW-Madison graduate student Hamidreza Nassiri has long been proud of the films coming out of his native Iran. From filmmaking giants like the late Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi to newer filmmakers like Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman), Iran has a long and rich tradition in cinema. Nassiri said that for ...

TEHRAN , Nov. 19 (MNA) Winners of the national and international sections of the 32nd edition of Tehran International Short Film Festival were announced during the events closing ceremony on Tuesday.This year, the festival received more than 3600 short films from 108 countries, of which 97 were chosen by the jury to vie in the event. In the international ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 08 (MNA) More than 450 films from 70 countries have been submitted to the secretariat of the Iranian national cinematic competition Ammar Popular Film Festival (APFF). The 6th Ammar Popular Film Festival has received over 450 works including documentaries, fictions and animations. Most of the submitted works were in the field ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 05 (MNA) The third edition of SalaMindanaw International Film Festival will be held in the Philippines with the participation of 13 films including an Irans Elegy. The film festival scheduled from November 18 to December 2, 2015 will be held in the cities of General Santos and Cotabato. It will hold two sections Asian full-length ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Pakistani citizen has filed a complaint against the Islamabad government for not declaring true figures of the Pakistani nationals who have died or gone missing in the Thursday stampede in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Mahmoud Akhtar Naghavi has sued 14 senior Pakistani officials, including prime minister and religious affairs minister,...

Iran is planning to hold the first film festival in Singapore to introduce the countrys cinematic productions. Asghar Farhadis Academy Award-winning movie A Separation is scheduled to open the festival that will take place from June 19 through 24. The Hidden Half by Tahmineh Milani, TheWedlock by Rouhollah Hejazi, So Far, So Close by Seyyed Reza ...

Its a sign of the times that for its 20th anniversary, the Boston Festival of Films From Iran cant boast the legendary names of past years, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, or Mohsen Makhmalbaf, whose work has defined modern Iranian cinema. Political turmoil and government suppression of Irans artists has made mounting the event difficult and ...