The 71st Locarno Festival will pay tribute to the Taviani Brothers, and honor the memory of Vittorio Taviani, who died last April. Paolo Taviani will be a guest of the festival and present a new print of the their film 'Good Morning Babiylon' (1987) in the outdoor cinema the Piazza Grande, recently restored by Italy's National Film Archive and Istituto Luce-Cinecitta.

Academy-Award winning director Martin Scorsese will be honored with the 13th annual Rome Film Fest's lifetime achievement award. Italian director Paolo Taviani will present the honor.

The 'One-Belt One-Road (OBOR) Journalists' Forum' officially began on Wednesday morning local time in the Chinese capital city of Beijing.

The first draft of music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote for the last act of his opera 'The Marriage of Figaro' is expected to sell for half a million euros ($578,000 or almost P30.9 million) when it goes under the hammer in Paris.

The third round of cultural dialogue between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Italy was held in Rome.

Iran documentary film 'Death of Qanat' was admitted for the competition of the 12th Voices from Waters Film Festival in India which is to be held on October 17.

The Independent Artistic Institution of Platform 101 will host the first exhibition tour in Tehran.

Iranian feature movie 'Mermaid', directed by Amir-Masoud Aqababaeian, received the Special Jury Award at the first Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) film festival held in the Chinese port city of Qingdao from June 13 to 17.

Iranian drama 'No Date, No Signature', directed by Vahid Jalilvand, won the award for Best Director at Russia's Mirror International Film Festival which was held from June 11 to 18.

Many local and foreign tourists every year visit eight-century-old Yivli Minare Mosque, the Alaaddin Mosque, for its architecture. Built by Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Kayqubad I, the mosque is one of the most visited historical monuments in Antalya Province.