Press TV - Irans cinema is actively taking part in the 2020 special edition of the Cannes Film Festivals market, which is being held online this year due to a coronavirus pandemic. The Cannes March du Film the largest film market in the world was launched online on Monday and will last until June 26 to support professionals in the global film ...

MNA The Italian Film Days in Cyprus granted awards to Iranian films in nine different categories in its February 2020 edition. The festival selected 15 winners for its February 2020 edition, nine of them were from Iran. The awards given to Iranian titles include: Best Narrative Short: The Eyes of Miracle (Abbas Davoudi) Best Documentary:...

IRNA Iran, Russia and South Korea signed Memorandum of Understanding on cinematic cooperation. The MoU was signed in presence of Chairman of the 32nd International Film Festival for Children and Youth Ali Reza Tabesh on the sidelines of the 32nd International Film Festival for Children and Youth underway in Isfahan province. On importance of ...

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: The phenomenon of "dirty" or suspicious money appears to have increasingly found a new haven: Irans cinema and TV production industry. In 2015, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli spoke of an issue that had existed for a long time but was rarely confirmed: "dirty money." The term has since come to be used in ...

IRNA Hossein Moheb Ahari, an Iranian cinema and theater actor, died of cancer early Wednesday. The late Moheb Ahari also worked for the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) as a journalist for a couple of years in the 1980s. Moheb Ahari was born in Tehran on Oct 22, 1951. He had a BA in Persian literature and entered cinema industry in 1988. He ...

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: Name-calling and thinly veiled insults on the screen areno novelty for Iran'sstate broadcaster, but a recent feud between the countrys harshest film critic and a sharp-tongued talk show host has spilled to other media outlets, causing the show to go off-air. The controversy started Nov.30, when Arash Zellipour, the young ...

ISNA | Shima Masjedi: The 12th Iranian Cinema Critics Celebration was held in Eyvan-e Shams Hall, Tehran, late on Tue. Dec. 18. Winners were announced in the ceremony.    

MNA Three Iranian titles are being considered to be the one making it into the Foreign Language submissions of the 2019 Academy Awards. The three nominees include: No Date, No Signature directed by Vahid Jalilvand; No. 17 Soheila directed by Mahmoud Ghaffari; and The Lost Strait directed by Bahram Tavakkoli. 'No. 17 Soheila is about a 40-year-...

Tasnim Celebrated Iranian actor Ezzatollah Entezami was laid to rest after a crowded funeral service here in Tehran on Sunday. A huge crowd of mourners attended the funeral of Entezami, known as Mr. Actor in Iran. Minister of Culture Abbas Salehi and a host of Iranian cinematic figures along with people from different walks of life took part ...

IRNA Iran President Hassan Rouhani expressed condolences over demise of the late prominent Iranian actor Ezzatollah Entezami, who passed away on Friday morning at the age of 94. In his message released on Friday, President Rouhani reiterated that Entezami with his masterpieces played a major role in promoting Iranian art. He wished health and ...

Press TV - Ezzatollah Entezami, one of the most prominent actors of the Iranian cinema and theater, has passed away at the age of 94. Born in 1924, he started his theater career in his 20s and later moved to Hanover, Germany, to study theater and cinema in a boarding school. After graduation in 1958, he returned to his homeland and appeared in ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday called for promotion of Iranian cinema's capacities at national and international levels. Iran's cinema should try to increase its share from other countries' culture and arts and also the global film industry, he said in a message to the closing ceremony of the 36th edition of Fajr International Film Festival....

Tehran Times - Iranian cinema has so far won about 3685 awards at international events since the victory of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian film scholar Mohammad Atebbai said on Saturday. This means that Iranian cinema has grossed about 18 international awards every week; that is, every week the name of Iran has been acknowledged 18 times around ...

IRNA The referee of the 34st International Film Festival (FIFF) described Iranian cinema as quietly well-known in the global festivals. Talking to IRNA, young female Afghan filmmaker, Sahraa Karimi, said the cinema of Iran has managed to lure a large number of audiences across the globe. She said Iranian cinema enjoys an independent identity which ...

IFP- Ali Moallem, an influential and educated film producer, critic, publisher and managing director and editor-in-chief of Donya-ye Tasvir (Picture World) magazine, passed away on Monday at the age of 54. Moallem died of cardiac arrest in his office in Tehran, according to a report by ILNA A graduate of cinema, Moallem, 54, started Donya-ye ...

Financial Tribune- The 14th edition of Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF), due in January 2017 in India, has dedicated a section to exclusively focus on Iranian cinema by showing eight movies produced between 2015 and 2016. According to the festival website, A Dragon Arrives directed by Mani Haghighi, Born in 1987 by Majid Tavakkoli, Identity ...

A large number of artists working in Irans movie industry are seen in this September 12, 2016, photo attending the 18th Cinema Celebration. Some of the actors and actresses are honored during the ceremony held in the Mashq Square downtown Tehran.   By ...

Tehran, July 18, IRNA - On July 10, several thousands of cinema lovers bid farewell to internationally acclaimed film director Abbas Kiarostami in north of Tehran, whose films served as an introduction to Irans vibrant cinema industry to movie lovers from all over the world. Following his death in Paris, a tsunami of headlines from the media and ...

The death of renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has jolted the world of cinema mourning the loss of a genius who epitomized Albert Schweitzers philosophy of reverence for life. Although it is unclear if Kiarostami was familiar with the works of Schweitzer, nonetheless there is a great deal of natural affinity between them, worthy of reflection....

Tehran, July 5, IRNA Iran on Tuesday mourned death of prominent Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami. Popular figures from the government and the Arts Community and cultural figures expressed condolence to the Iranians on the great loss. Iranian internationally acclaimed film director Abbas Kiarostami, with legacy of 'The Taste of Cherry' and ...