Posts Tagged ‘filmfest’

India Smile filmfest screening movies from Iran, Elham Shirvani on panel 

TEHRAN – Three Iranian movies have been selected to be screened at the 9th edition of the Smile International Film Festival for Children & Youth – SIFFCY underway in New Delhi, India. Source

Wartime drama on Abadan’s nostalgic theater named best at Fajr filmfest 

TEHRAN – “Metropol Cinema”, a drama on a nostalgic theater in wartime Abadan, has won the Crystal Simorgh for best film at the 41st Fajr International Film Festival. Source

“The American Bull” tops at Turkey’s Lion short filmfest

TEHRAN – Iranian filmmaker Fatemeh Tusi’s “The American Bull” has been selected as best film at the 11th Lions International Short Film Competition in Turkey. The story of the movie is set in a village between Iran and Iraq, where a group of inhabitants are involved in animal husbandry. Saheb, the adolescent owner of the […]

Photos: 35th Fajr Intl. Filmfest wraps up

IRNA l Marziyeh Soleimani: The closing ceremony for the 35th Fajr International Film Festival, attended by Iranian cinema managers, cineastes, political figures, national and international special guests, was held in Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Thursday.     Source Article from http://theiranproject.com/blog/2017/04/28/photos-35th-fajr-intl-filmfest-wraps/

Iran files lawsuit against US at IC Justice over seized assets: Rouhani

Iran has filed a lawsuit against the United States at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanding compensation over the seizure of USD 2 billion worth of the country’s assets by a top American court. President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Iran had filed the lawsuit with the ICJ a day earlier, vowing that his administration […]

Ultra-orthodox Israeli rabbi bans girls over five from riding bikes because it is ‘provocative’

Trump Recycles Bill Clinton’s Immigration Lines

Youtube link It seemed so radical that Donald Trump would even address illegal immigration. Is he pushing the Overton Window or simply saying what President Clinton said in the 90s? Source Article from http://www.renegadetribune.com/trump-recycles-bill-clintons-immigration-lines/

‘US Plan B in Syria legitimizes ISIL’

TEHRAN (FNA)- The US Plan B in Syria could broaden the conflict in the middle Eastern country, as some suggesting that the plan is the division of Syria and division of Iraq into ethnic lines that is going to create even further problems in the long run, a leading expert in Middle East affairs said. […]

Japan: Toyota Halts Vehicle Production Due to Supply Disruptions After Earthquakes

Japan: Toyota Halts Vehicle Production Due to Supply Disruptions After Earthquakes April 17th, 2016 Via: Reuters: Toyota Motor Corp , the world’s biggest-selling automaker, said on Sunday it would suspend much of its production at plants across Japan this week after earthquakes in the […]

Iran-Russia-Azerbaijan summit planned

Tehran, April 7, IRNA — Foreign ministers Mohammad Javad Zarif, Sergey Lavrov and Elmar Mammadyarov in a joint press release on Thursday agreed to make arrangements for holding the first Iran-Russia-Azerbaijan trilateral summit. The press release stressed the significance of the summit and its role in deepening dialogue and interaction among the countries on regional […]

Britain’s New Era of “State Secrecy” Undermines Democracy

David Cameron nobly declared in 2010 that: “It is our ambition to be one of the most transparent governments in the world”  and “Greater transparency across government is at the heart of our shared commitment to enable the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account; to reduce the deficit and deliver better value for money […]

Petroleum minister: IPC text not yet finalized

Tehran, Feb 9, IRNA – Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said on Tuesday that the text of new oil contracts has not yet been finalized. Briefing a press conference on Iranian Petroleum Contract (IPC), Zangeneh said, ‘When a new plan is proposed, wide-scale opposition is raised against it; this will of course be solved with […]

Japan: Researchers Developing Cell Phone Sensor to Detect Cancer, Other Diseases from Breath

Japan: Researchers Developing Cell Phone Sensor to Detect Cancer, Other Diseases from Breath January 9th, 2016 Via: The Japan Times: A high-precision sensor that can detect the possibility of someone having cancer, diabetes and other ailments just from their breath has been developed in […]

Iran tops UCI Asia rankings, wins three Olympic tickets

Tehran, Jan 3, IRNA – Iran won 1,655 points to stand on top in the Road 2015 of the Union Cycliste Internationale’s (UCI) Asia Tour to book three berths in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Kazakhstan (602) and Japan (541) follow Iran, winning two tickets each, the Tehran-based English newspaper ‘Iran Daily’ reported. In the […]

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