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Motahhari’s Book in Russian
Noted theologian Martyr Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari’s book has been translated into Russian, said an official.
Iran’s Cultural Attache to Russia told IRNA that the 207-page book ’Perfect Human’ has been printed in 1,500 copies.
The book will be presented at the upcoming Moscow International Book Fair in September.
Numerous books by Martyr Motahhari have been translated into different languages across the globe. These include Urdu translations of two of his works ’The Stories of the Truthful’ and ’The light of Eternity’ which were released recently in New Delhi, India
Motahhari (1920-1979) was an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer and political activist, who played a major role in elucidating Islamic ideology for the young generation. He was assassinated by the terrorist group of ’Forqan’ in 1979.
Yerevan Honors Mehrjouei
Armenia’s Golden Apricot International Film Festival has granted lifetime achievement awards to renowned Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjouei as well as German director Wim Wenders.
Mehrjouei and Wenders received this year’s Golden Apricot lifetime achievement award in the Armenian capital Yerevan, IRNA reported.
The international festival dedicated special screenings to prominent films by both Mehrjouei and Wenders, who will chair the Venice film festival this year.
Mehrjouei’s award winning films ’The Pear Tree’ and ’The Postman’ as well as Wenders’ Cannes competition film ’The Palermo Shooting’ were screened during the program.
The 5th Golden Apricot International Film Festival ran from July 13-20.
2 Films for US Fest
Iranian films ’Buddha Collapsed out of Shame’, directed by Hana Makhmalbaf, and ’Head Wind’ by Mohammad Rasoulof are to participate in the Fourth Traverse City Film Festival to be held from July 29 until August 3 in the US state of Michigan .
A joint Irano-French production, ’Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame’ also received the Crystal Bear award at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival, ISNA said.
The film depicts the agonies of a toiling Afghan schoolgirl and her efforts to continue her education when the former Taliban rulers of Afghanistan began to demolish the world’s precious Buddha sculptures in Bamyan in 2001.
’Head Wind’ was recently screened at the Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival in Washington.
The Traverse City Film Festival is a charitable, educational, nonprofit organization committed to showing “Just Great Movies“ and helping to save one of America’s few indigenous art forms-- the cinema.
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, the festival brings films and filmmakers from around the world to northern Michigan.
Tehran Will Host Iraq Cultural Week
Tehran is to host Iraq Cultural Week in an attempt to provide a creative atmosphere for Iraqi artists of post-Saddam world.
Iraqi Culture Minister Assad Kamal Al-Hashimi will arrive in Tehran on Wednesday to join Mohammad Hossein Saffar-Harandi, Iran’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance, for the event’s opening ceremony, IRNA said.
More than 160 Iraqi artists are invited to attend the ceremony. The week-long program has different sections, including a book fair, a photo exhibit, music, film and ’cultural dialogue’.
The cultural dialogue programs will highlight daily lives of the Iraqis. The event will also give visitors a chance to familiarize with Iraq’s traditional music and theater.
Iraq Cultural Week begins on Tuesday and it will run until July 29 in Tehran’s Khavaran Cultural Center.
’Beyond Love’ to Be Released
A group of independent documentary writers are to release a short film ’Beyond Love’ for introducing Islam.
Spokesman of the NGO ’Islam and Christianity’, Mohammad Karimi, told IRNA that the short film has been produced in response to the blasphemous anti-Islamic film, ’Fitna’, produced and released by the Dutch legislator Geert Wilders. “The film aims to introduce the real image of Islam. It will be useful for those who want to get acquainted with Islam,“ he said.
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