Art And Culture

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 film ‘Dracula’ is to have one screening at Godfather Café on Thursday. 

Based on a namesake title by Irish author Bram Stoker (1847-1912), the American…

Qolhak Cineplex will host the 2017 crime drama ‘Phantom Thread’ on Thursday.  It is directed by American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, the venue’s website wrote.

Five Iranian short films will be shown at the 42nd Annual Atlanta Film Festival, April 12-April 22, in Atlanta, state of Georgia in the US.

Denmark Film Institute in Copenhagen is to hold a festival of Iranian films from April 15 to 28.

There are a number of acclaimed films to be screened at the cinematheque of the institute…

Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi, whose movies take the audience on a journey through the Palestinian cities past and present, will be the special guest at the Broken Olive Branches section…

The London branch of Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers will hold an auction titled ‘Awakening and Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art’ on April 18.

A total of 67…

Auditorium Jean Rouch of Musée de l’Homme, an anthropology museum in Paris hosted the screening of Ibrahim Mokhtari’s documentary film ‘Saffron’ on Saturday.

‘Saffron’, made in 1990,…

American film production and distribution company CBS Films has purchased the rights of Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s best-selling book ‘Russian Roulette’, and will make a movie based on its…

An Iranian animated series ‘Roobi and Chickens’ has made it to the 58th Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France. 

Co-directed by Babak and Behnoud Nekooei, the…

Zhiwaar Tour has organized a 3-day tour of Kurdistan Province.

Slated for April 11-14, the tour will cover numerous attractions of the northwestern province including Lake Zarivar in the…

A red lake in a green forest is the destination of a one-day trip to Mazandaran Province.

Organized by Spilet Alborz travel agency, the tour is slated for April 13, starting at 5 am and…

Arand Tour is going to show some key attractions of Shiraz, capital of Fars Province.

From April 11-14, a tour is planned in the tourist city that will include visits to the UNESCO World…

Farda Art Gallery in Tehran is displaying a selection of paintings by renowned self-taught painter Mokarrameh Qanbari (1928-2005) and her son Ali Bolboli.

On display are 20 paintings by…

Asmar Mousavinia’s Persian rendition of ‘Lands of Glass’ a novel by popular Italian writer, director and performer Alessandro Baricco has been released by Morvarid Publication. 

Golazin Publication has released Zahra Tahmasbi’s Persian translation of ‘Ubu the King’ in 139 pages.

It is the best known work of French symbolist writer Alfred Jarry. Poet and…

Archaeologists have found boxing people carved among the prehistoric rocks of Teymareh in Khomeyn, Markazi Province, which reportedly are 40,000 years old.The engraved sketch shows two men…

Tehran and Nishabur, a city in Khorasan Razavi Province, will host the First International Conference on Persian Language and Iranian-Islamic Thoughts. 

A short documentary about two volunteers for a one-way flight to Mars has entered the lineup of Tourfilm Riga 2018, the 11th International Tourism Film Festival that will open in Riga, capital…

Before he ventured into the far reaches of space and consciousness with ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, probed the dark heart of humanity with ‘The Shining’ or ‘A Clockwork Orange’, and chronicled the…

Writer-director Rithy Panh of Cambodia will receive the Fajr Peace Award at the 36th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran for his cinematic works which mostly focus on humanitarian issues…

Sotheby’s London will host an auction titled ‘20th Century Art / Middle East’ on April 24 concluding an exhibit of ‘Orientalist and Middle Eastern Art Week’, beginning April 20.

The…

The winners of the 2018 annual competition of the National Press Photographers Association were announced late March at the NPPA website. Iranian photojournalist with AFP Behrouz Mehri got the…

Three members of the Swedish Academy, the body that selects the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, have withdrawn from its board in protest over the handling of allegations of sexual…

‘Pale Blue’, the 70-minute film by Iranian director Arash Lahouti is among the 15 entries shortlisted for the international competition section of Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival…

Classical cellist and conductor Pejman Memarzadeh, 45, based in France, will be the guest conductor of Tehran Symphony Orchestra in two concerts in Tehran. The concerts are slated for April 19-…