Culture

PayvandNews – Iranian short animated piece ‘Watch Me!’, directed by Reza Mehranfar, has made it into the screening program of 16th Oxford International Film Festival in Ohio, United States.

radiofarda – Iran said on Sunday that no fatalities had been reported but that about 200 people were injured after an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near its western border with Iraq, Iranian state TV reported.

PayvandNews – Twenty-one designs and architects from Iran are among the nominees for the 2018 Middle East Architect Awards, which were announced by the organizers last week.

Al-Monitor – Soheil Beiraghi’s “Cold Sweat,” an award-winning film based on a real story of a woman’s struggle to play futsal (indoor soccer), has raised the ire of the Iranian hard-liners who accuse the film of being unsuitable for families and undermining family values.

cbc- An ancient windcatcher becomes a hypnotic device in this new installation

Iran-HRM – Iran’s authorities appear to have taken measures to prevent citizens from staging a gathering at the tomb of the ancient Persian king Cyrus the Great that attracted thousands of people celebrating the country’s pre-Islamic glory.

PayvandNews – Fatemeh Motamed-Arya has used her popularity as an artist to tackle the difficult and complex issues facing her country.

PayvandNews- Tara Behbahani has said that the paintings in her new collection “Passing through Imagination” dig up depictions of moments of happiness from the heart of history. The collection, which depicts women on images of beautiful Persian tiles, is on display in an exhibition at Tehran’s Golestan Gallery.

(CNN)- Filmmaking in Iran is not a simple pursuit. There are plenty of ways to fall foul of censors, from negative depictions of society to portraying “unrefined” images.

PayvandNews – The international Golden Eagle tourist train has arrived in Iran from Sarakhs Border Crossing with the neighboring Turkmenistan for a two-week tour called “Heart of Persia“, the Managing Director of Khorasan Province’s Railways said.