Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: The selection of a documentary instead of a feature film to represent Iran at the Oscars has stirred negative reactions in some Iranian cultural circles, with the choice of Finding Farideh being likened to a coup. Every year, the Farabi Cinema Foundation, which is affiliated to the Culture Ministry, forms a committee ...

TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA) Mehrdad Oskoueis Starless Dreams documentary which depicts the life of girls in rehab centers in Iran, will be screened in the 39th Norwegian Short Film Festival. The Norwegian Short Film Festival is a short film and documentary festivalwhich will be holding its 39th edition on June 812 2016, in the city of Grimstad. This ...

TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA) The US Mammoth Lakes Film Festival will screen two Iranian documentaries Atlan and Sounita. Atlan, produced in Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center(DEFC) and directe by Moein Karimoddini will compete along with other 50 other long documentary and cinematic works in California, US, during Mammoth Lakes Film Festival ...

TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA) It is originally entitled Bazaar from Tehran to Tehran, a documentary by Reza Khanlari and a product of Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC). Beginning from May 9, the documentary will be screened in Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival held May 9-12, 2016, in Eugene, Oregon in the US. It will ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 26 (MNA) Iranian documentarian Sam Kalantaris 'He' reached the final section of 8th TRT Documentary Awards. Produced by the Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC), He (Original title:Mannequins of Hassan Khan Castle) focuses on shop-window mannequins made in a factory in Qaleh Hassan Khan, a town between Tehran and Karaj....

Two Iranian documentaries have been selected to be screened at the 2014 Open City Docs Festival in the UK's capital capital city of London. Trucker and the Fox directed by Arash Lahouti and Iranian Ninja by Marjan Riahi are slated to be showcased in a particular program on Iran titled Friendship Cinema at the festival. Lahoutis screen representation ...

The Last Days of Winter, an Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskuii, has received a special mention at the Traces de Vies Documentary Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The film won the honor in the Regard Social section of the festival, which was held from November 26 to December 2. The Last Days of Winter is about seven Iranian ...