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’Each Night of Solitude’
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Leila Hatami (r) and Hamed Behdad
in a scene from
ÔEach Night
of SolitudeÕ,
directed by Rasoul
Sadr-Ameli.
The film is among
the 18 Iranian
movies being
presented at the 61st Cannes market.
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Farshchian Honored
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Mahmoud Farshchian
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Celebrated painter Mahmoud Farshchian was honored in a ceremony at Tehran’s Saadabad Cultural Complex on Sunday which coincided with the beginning of Cultural Heritage Week.
According to IRNA, the artist received a plaque of honor at the event attended by officials of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.
Earlier, the artist unveiled four of his latest miniatures at the complex’s Farshchian Museum on Friday in a ceremony attended by Mahmoud Shalouei, director general of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry’s Visual Arts Department.
They included ’The Annoyance’, ’Wildlife’, ’Flourishing’, and ’The Dense Clouds’.
Meanwhile, tributes were paid to 31 exemplary curators nationwide on the sideline of the event.
Farshchian, the most prominent modernizer of the field of miniatures, was chosen as an outstanding 21st century intellectual by Cambridge and was granted an honorary doctorate in fine arts.
He held 51 solo exhibitions and participated in 83 group events during 1948-94.
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Persian Tales Universal
A German scholar has said that Persian tales exist all over the world and diverse narrations of these tales can be found in the folklore of various ethnic groups, reported ISNA.
Ulrich Marzolph, who was participating in a workshop on Iranian tales organized by Iran’s national Radio, further said, “If we take up an international model for classifying Persian tales, we would realize that the tales are also found in the folklores of other nations.“
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Ulrich Marzolph
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Marzolph, a professor of Islamic studies at Georg-August University, Gottingen, added that when German researchers began to categorize their folktales some 200 years ago, they adopted a comparative approach which led them to realize that German tales are dispersed worldwide and some of them had more than one origin.
He also referred to studies by Grimm Brothers on German tales which made comparative research more extensive and helped researchers locate the origin of some folktales in lands as far away as India.
Marzolph further said that he has contributed articles on Iranian tales to a large encyclopedia of folktales and that over 800 researchers are working on the project to prepare the largest-ever compilation of folktales.
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Imam Ali (AS):
O you, who are blaming the world, who have been allured and enticed by it, and have been tempted by its false pretenses. You allowed yourself to be enamored of it and to be captivated by it, while you accuse and blame it.
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65 Nations at Caricature Event
Artists from 65 countries are participating in Gaza International Caricature Exhibition underway at Palestine Museum of Contemporary Arts.
According to IRNA, the event, which opened on May 8, marks the 60th anniversary of the occupation of Palestine and the establishment of the Zionist regime.
The inaugural ceremony was attended by cultural officials, including Mahmoud Shalouie, director general of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry’s Visual Arts Department and Seyyed Masoud Shojaei Tabatabaei, director of Iran’s Caricature House.
Prominent caricaturists are taking part in the exhibit, each with a variety of styles to narrate the Gaza catastrophe. Research session and peripheral programs will be held on the sidelines of the event which runs until May 29.
Bahar Website Operational
A website featuring the prominent Iranian poet Mohammad-Taqi Bahar has been launched in Paris in coordination with the late poet’s family.
According to ISNA, the site includes sections on his biography, works, anthology, researches and photos.
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, widely known as ’Malek-ol Shoara’, is considered as the greatest 20th century Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, professor of literature and historian.
Despite being a contemporary poet, his poems were fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic.
Bahar’s style of writing and the beauty of his poetry, place him among famous Iranian poets and writers such as Abolqasem Ferdowsi and Sheikh Mosleheddin Saadi.
The website is accessible at www.bahar.fr
Iran Not Mentioned As Co-Producer of ’Snow’
Center for Development of Documentary and Experimental Cinema has announced that there is no mention of Iran as one of the co-producers of the film ’Snow’ at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.
According to Fars News Agency, while ’Snow’, directed by Aida Bejik, has been introduced as one of the two Iranian films at the festival, there is no mention of Iran in specialized websites such as Screen Daily and Yahoo Movie.
Managing director of the center, Mohammad Afarideh said that Iran voiced its readiness to participate in production of ’Snow’ two years ago at Sarajevo Film Festival.
He underlined that the film is a joint production of Iran, Germany, France and Bosnia.
Meanwhile, the head of the center’s international relations department, Masoud Bakhshi, said that websites have made an inadvertent mistake by not mentioning Iran.
He recalled that Iran has signed a contract according to which in any publicity for the film, the name of the center and Iran should be mentioned.
Indiana Jones Survives Quest at Cannes
Indiana Jones survived his first perilous outing on Sunday, winning a friendly round of applause at a press preview at Cannes and respectable reviews.
The world premiere of the fourth and latest installment in the adventure series, and the first in 19 years--’Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’--is the hottest ticket at this year’s Cannes film festival, AFP reported.
A packed crowd of hundreds, many wearing Indiana Jones hats, waved and cheered as Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, 65, and co-star Cate Blanchett, who plays the villain, walked Cannes’ famed red carpet for the official world premiere.
Set in the late 1950s of the Cold War era, the two-hour movie sees its swashbuckling archeologist hero racing against Soviet agents to recover a mysterious pre-Colombian skull in the wilds of Peru.
Action-packed with car-chases, waterfall rides, man-eating ants and the usual secret underground temples, the film is chock-a-block with throw-away lines and droll quips.
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