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’A Lantern in the Fog’
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Parivash Nazarieh in a frame from ÔA Lantern in the FogÕ. The film, which featured at Cannes Market, has been selected for the prestigious Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea. Directed by Panahbar-Khoda Rezaei, it was among the entries shown at the 26th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.
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Iranian Movies Welcomed at Cannes Market
Productions of Documentary and Experimental Film Center, one of the institutes displaying its products in the Iranian cinema pavilion at Cannes Market, has been warmly received by film distributors and organizers of international festivals.
According to MNA, the film ’A Lantern in the Fog’, a production of the center featured at Cannes Market, was selected for the upcoming Pusan International Film Festival in South Korean in October.
Directed by Panahbar-Khoda Rezaei, the film was also among the entries to the 26th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.
Representatives of the center are in talks with a Chilean film company for distributing Iranian documentaries in Latin America.
The center was also a co-producer of the film ’Snow’, which received Cannes Festival’s sidebar Critics’ Week Grand Prix.
Directed by Aida Begic, the film is a joint production of Iran, Bosnia, Germany and France.
A French company clinched internet rights to four of the center’s productions, including ’The Expelled’, directed by Masoud Dehnamaki, ’Note on Earth’, by Ali Mohammad Qasemi, ’Jamshid and the Sun’ by Behrouz Yaghmaeian and ’Childish War’ by Abolqasem Talebi.
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15 Plays on Tehran Stage
Fifteen performances are currently on stage at Tehran’s theater halls, including five at City Theater Complex whose Main Hall is staging ’Komeil Channel’, directed by Koroush Zarei.
The play, whose cast includes Javad Hashemi and Hossein Mosafer Astaneh, belongs to a genre of Iranian films known as ’Sacred Defense’ (1980-88 Iran-Iraq war), according to MNA.
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A scene from ÔKoemil ChannelÕ
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Sayeh Hall is hosting ’The Cantankerous Men’ directed by Hamid Pourazari. Written by the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni, the play is centered on followers of old customs who oppose contemporary trends and developments. It has so far attracted a large audience to the hall.
Kiumars Moradi’s ’A Midautumn Night’s Dream’ is on stage at Qashqaei Hall and will continue until June 27.
’Makando’ is also on stage at the complex’s performance workshop. Directed by Azadeh Ansari, the play will be performed until June 20.
Manijeh Mahamedi’s ’The Exonerated’ will also remain on stage at Chaharsou Hall until May 30.
Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the play tells the true story of six Americans convicted and sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit.
Molavi Hall is hosting two plays, namely ’Breakfast for Ikarous’ and ’Highway’, directed by Hamidreza Naeimi and Afrouz Forouzand, respectively.
Performance House is staging ’Cut’ by Faramarz Qilichkhani, while ’Doll’, directed by Ali Rahimi, is on stage at Mehr Theater Hall. Other plays currently on stage include ’The Most Blue Sky’, Lullaby’, ’Death Comedy’ and ’Frontline’.
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Imam Ali (AS):
How true! Our declaration that we belong to Allah indicates that we accept Him as our Master, Owner and Lord. And that we say our return is to Allah indicates we accept our mortality.
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Farabi Award for British Iranologist
Renowned British Iranologist Peter Ivery was presented the Farabi International Award for Persian language and literature in a ceremony at the Iranian Embassy in London.
According to IRIBNews, Rasoul Movaheddian, Iran’s ambassador in London, presented the statuette and special award to the scholar.
“Professor Avery is a prominent example of a scholar charmed by the spiritual aspects of Persian poetry. He has experienced love in Hafez school of thought, mysticism in Molana’s ideas and ministration in Ferdowsi’s poetry,“ he said.
On receiving the award, the professor expressed his gratitude for being bestowed such an honor.
“The main joy of my life is association with Iranians whose culture is abound with kindness, wittiness and understanding of human failures and achievements,“ he said.
Among Avery’s most recent books are translations of the anthology of renowned Persian poet Sheikh Mosleheddin Hafez Shirazi. He is also acclaimed for ’Conference of the Birds’, the first complete translation in prose of Attar Neishabouri’s ’Manteq Ol-Tair’.
Film Week UnderwayIn Tatarstan
Iranian Film Week is underway in Kazan, the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan as part of the programs to mark Iranian Cultural Week which will run until May 31.
According to IRNA, the event seeks to boost cultural cooperation with the Republic of Tatarstan.
At the event a number of Iranian films, including ’The Color of Paradise’, directed by Majid Majidi, ’Tears of Cold’ by Kamal Tabrizi, ’Basho, the Little Stranger’ by Barham Beizaei and the ’Angelica Ship’ by Mohammad Bozorgnia will be screened.
The event is sponsored by Iranian Cultural Center in Russia, Iran’s consulate general in Kazan and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Niavaran Hosts ’Spring’ Artworks
Niavaran Cultural Complex is holding an exhibition of artworks in cooperation with six private organizations.
According to IRNA, the event titled ’The First Season: Spring’ has on display paintings by Akbar Nikanpour and Ahmad Nasrollahi, photographs by Hamid Jafari and Morteza Poursamadi and collage works by Batoul Mohammadi.
The event, which seeks to promote the economy of art, is apparently a sequel to the ’Iranian Spring’ exhibit held earlier at Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Arts.
Discussion sessions and children’s workshops will be held on the sidelines of the event.
Asian Art Records Tumble
A work by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi sold for $9.5 million on Saturday, a new auction record for an Asian contemporary artwork, at auctioneer Christie’s first evening sale of such art in Hong Kong.
Fanzhi’s large scale 2-by-3.6 meter work entitled ’Mask Series 1996 No. 6,’ sold for almost triple its pre-sale estimate, Reuters said.
Zeng’s diptych of eight masked youths with red scarves linking arms, hints at Mao Zedong’s ’Little Red Guards’ who wreaked havoc across China during its tumultuous Cultural Revolution.
The work, not previously offered at auction, is considered a highlight of Zeng’s ’Mask’ series of ambiguous Chinese figures contending with life under communist rule.
The results suggested the Chinese art market remains resilient despite financial market jitters.
A remarkable surge in demand for Chinese art in recent years has been spurred partly by newly affluent Chinese collectors.
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