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Two Iranian movies win Best Film awards at ARFF
Environmental feature film ‘Kupal’ was awarded as the Best Feature Film at the 3rd Around International Film Festival (ARFF) in Amsterdam. Director and writer Kazem Mollai’s Kupal competed with counterparts from US, China, the Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Czech Republic, among which Kupal grabbed the award. Kupal ...
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Kazan festival to screen six films from Iran
Six Iranian films will be competing in the 13th Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema, which will be held in the Tatarstan capital from Septem ...
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Iranian weightlifter Majid Farzin breaks world record
The Iranian disabled weightlifter Majid Farzin broke the world record by raising the weight of 238kg on his head. At the national championships in ...
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Alidoosti Among Top 10 Actresses
In the moral parable ‘The Salesman’, Taraneh Alidoosti plays a stunning central role, a married actress who is assaulted by a stranger in her apartmen ...
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‘The Servant’ wins 2nd best animation award at SFBFF 2017
Iranian animated piece ‘The Servant’ by Farnoosh Abedi has won the second Best Animation Award at the 20th San Francisco Black Film Festival (SFBFF). ...
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“The Bodyguard” secures three awards at Vienna film festival
Iranian director Ebrahim Hatamikia’s political drama “The Bodyguard” won three awards at the Vienna Independent Film Festival, the organizers announce ...
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Iran’s auto sector to rise GDP share by 70%
The share of Iran’s auto industry in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is projected to rise by 70 percent in the current Iranian calendar yea ...
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Iran sets sights on 6.5m foreign tourist arrivals
Iran aims to draw some 6.5 million foreign travelers by the end of the current calendar year 1396 (March 20, 2018), though the country’s tourism infra ...
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Iran qualify for 2018 World Cup after beating Uzbekistan
Iran defeated Uzbekistan 2-0 to advance to successive FIFA World Cups for the first time in their history. After Brazil, who have become the first tea ...
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Iranian films on peace to screen in Hiroshima, Tokyo
A number of Iranian movies will go on screen in Hiroshima and Tokyo, on the sidelines of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony. The ceremony is hel ...