IRNA Shahab Hosseini, the actor of Asghar Farhadis Oscar-winning movies A Separation and The Salesman has received French Legion of Honour. The honorary award was bestowed upon Hosseini by the French ambassador to Tehran Philippe Thibaud on Thursday evening. Previously, the Iranian artist had won the Best Actor Award from Cannes Film Festival ...

Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: Iranian actors are calling on President Hassan Rouhani to allow legendary Iranian actor Behrouz Vossoughi to come home from self-exile in the United States, but the requests on behalf of the iconic actor have fallen on deaf ears. With more than 90 cinematic and television films, Behrouz Vossoughi is arguably Irans ...

IFP- It is unfortunate that the world is placed in a conflicting process of science and technology progress and regression of human culture. All around the world we see leaders are guiding the world into the darkness of ignorance instead of the light of consciousness, Hosseini, a Palme dOr winner, wrote on his Instagram. They advance discord, hatred,...

euronews- With The Salesman, Irans Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi offers once again a multi-layered masterwork of neorealism. Emad and Rana are a happily married couple who live in Tehran. They are members of an amateur theatre group thats putting on a production of Arthur Millers Death Of A Salesman. After they are forced to leave their ...

The UKs Curzon Artificial Eye and Germanys Prokino are among the latest distributors to snap up Iranian feature movie The Salesman which picked up awards for best screenplay for Asghar Farhadias well as best actor for Shahab Hosseini at the Cannes Film Festival less than two weeks ago. Paris-based Memento Films International (MFI) has also unveiled ...

Tehran, May 29, The Iran Project Indian PM Modi and Afghan President visit to the country; Iran, India and Afghanistan signing Chabahar agreement, Supreme Leader receiving family of martyred Hezbollah commander MustafaBadreddine, 5th Assembly of Experts and 10th Majlis inaugurating and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius trip to Iran dominated ...

A Saudi newspaper recently expressed its concerns over the success of Iranian cinema in prestigious film festivals, seeing Iranian actor Shahab Hosseini as being more dangerous than IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani. Heres IFPs translation of a report by Al Alam on the Saudi article:   Following the recent success of Asghar Farhadis ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) There is a high chance that Iranian star Shahab Hosseini will win this years Oscar for Best Actor after taking home the best actor award at the 69th edition of the Cannes film festival. Hosseini won the best actor award at the Cannes film festival Sunday for his role as a husband shaken by an attack on his wife in "The Salesman" ...

Tehran, May 23, The Iran Project FM Zarif meeting with Kerry, Hammond, Bishop and Mogherini on implementation of JCPOA in Vienna, Croatian president Grabar-Kitarovi? trip to Iran, President Rouhani visiting senior clerics in Qom during a rare trip and New Zealand FM McCully visiting Iran dominated the countrys media outlets in the past week (May 17 ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Monday and picked headlines from 23 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Most newspapers on Monday covered the success of Asghar Farhadis most recent movie, The Salesman, in the Sunday night closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival,...

Iranian Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi and actor Shahab Hosseini have won the rewards for the best screenplay and the best actor at Cannes respectively. Starring Hosseini, The Salesman got the Best Screenplay during the 69th edition of the festival Sunday and brought the Iranian superstar the Best Actor. Iranian actress Taraneh Alidousti ...