AP Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulofs There Is No Evil won the Golden Bear prize Saturday for best picture at the Berlin Film Festival. Rasoulof wasnt there to accept the award due to a travel ban imposed on him by Iranian authorities. There Is No Evil tells four stories loosely connected to the use of the death penalty in Iran and dealing with ...

MNA Irans Farabi Cinema Foundation and Film Center Serbia have signed an agreement to expand cooperation in cinematic fields. The agreement was signed by the two sides on the sidelines of the 69th Berlin Film Festival film market, with an aim to develop cultural diplomacy and improve cinematic ties between Iranian and Serbian cinema community. Under ...

Berlin, Feb 20, IRNA- German Magazine Stern predicted that 'I'm Nero' (Soy Nero) and ' Fire at Sea ' (Fuocoammare) are more likely to bag Golden Bear award in Berlin Festival. 'I'm Nero' was directed by Italian director of Iranian origin, Rafi Pitts whereas ' Fire at Sea ' was directed by Gianfranco Rosi. 'I'm Nero' which is Rafi Pitts' fifth long ...

AFP -Iran on Monday protested against the awarding of a Silver Bear to Jafar Panahi for the best screenplay for Parde (Closed Curtain) at the 63rd Berlin film festival, the ISNA news agency reported. The award went on Saturday to the dissident director and his long-time collaborator Kambuzia Partovi, for a film made secretly in defiance of a ban by ...

Iranian film "Closed Curtain," shot by director Jafar Panahi while under house arrest in Tehran, picked up the Silver Bear for best screenplay at this years Berlin Film festival, which closed up shop on Saturday. Panahi, who previously won prizes of the Cannes, Venice of Berlin festivals, was arrested in March 2010 and sentenced for engaging ...

BERLIN A Chilean feel-good movie about ageing, a picture made in secret by Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi and a drama about Romania's new rich were the odds-on favourites for prizes Saturday at the Berlin film festival. In what critics called a fair-to-middling competition at the Berlinale, now in its 63rd year, women of a certain age were ...

BERLIN (AP) -- A new movie from a dissident Iranian director that defies a ban on filmmaking and reflects his frustration at being unable to work officially is making its debut at the Berlin film festival. "Closed Curtain" is co-directed by Jafar Panahi and fellow Iranian filmmaker and his longtime friend Kamboziya Partovi. Panahi, who has won awards ...

New releases starring Jude Law and Catherine Deneuve and the world premiere of a picture by embattled Iranian director Jafar Panahi joined the line-up Friday for next month's 63rd Berlin film festival. Keeping with a tradition of bringing high-wattage stars together with champions of hard-hitting political cinema, organisers of the "Berlinale" unveiled ...