MNA Famous Iranian director Majid Majidi has received a special award known as Plaque of Loyalty from the 2nd SufiSin Festival in Konya, Turkey. The SufiSin Festival is held every year on the occasion of the arrival of 13th-century Persian poet Rumis family in Konya. The festival, held from May 1 to 7 in the Turkish city, is dedicated to films ...

IRNA - Well-known Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi who received the honorary title of the Beijing Film Academy two months ago and is the honorary professor of the greatest Asian Academy of the Arts is due to make a film with Chinese cooperation. Accordingly, Majidi, who has been cynosure by Chinese authorities and institutions these days, is set to ...

IRNA Three Iranian films and one animation from the country are set to compete in Palm Springs and Orlando festivals. 'Yeva', a joint product of Iran and Armenia will be present at the 29th edition of Palm Springs Festival due to be held in the US on January 2-15. Majid Majidi's 'Beyond The Clouds' and 'No Date, No Signature' by Vahid Jalilvand ...

Tasnim Iranian biopic Muhammad (PBUH), the Messenger of God, the latest work by acclaimed director Majid Majidi, will be screened at movie theaters in Russia and Iraq in the near future, one of the films producers announced. Following the successful premiere of the movie in Turkey, it will be screened in Russian and Iraqi movie theaters in the not ...

IFP- According to a report by Fars, as translated by IFP, Mohammad Reza Saberi, the head of Noor Taban Company, the distributor of Muhammad, the Messenger of God, said that 330,000 people have already watched Majid Majidis latest film in Turkish cinemas until Thursday, November 3. Audiences are very pleased with the film. Turkish people from all ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Irans Muhammad: The Messenger of Gid by Majid Majidi was showcased in Moscow. The film was screened in a cinema in presence of Majidi and Irans Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaie with Russian subtitling. Majidi has said the aim of his film is removing the violent image of Islam created by Takfiri groups. A number of internationally-...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Muslim and non-Muslim movie-goers in Sweden warmly welcomed a recent screening of the Iranian film Muhammad (PBUH), the Messenger of God, made by acclaimed director Majid Majidi. The film was screened in the Swedish capital of Stockholm once for film critics, journalists, and students, and once for the public. The screening ...

Tehran, September 30, The Iran Project "Muhammad (s), the Messenger of God", the religious biopic directed by Majid Majidi has enjoyed a warm welcome both in Iran and abroad. This 171-minute epic that is the first part of a trilogy on the life of the prophet shows the events before his birth up to his teenage years in the holy city of Mecca. While ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- The Iranian film of Muhammad: The Messenger of God directed by Majid Majidi was screened in a mosque in Denmark as Majidi was also present at the time of screening the film. The Iranian film has been first screened in Iranian movies and was also at Imam Ali Mosque in Copenhagen. It would be also screened in movies and theater halls ...

Tehran, September 30, The Iran Project "Muhammad (s)" movie's director says the movie attempts to depict a very tiny dropof the prophet's mercy ocean. Speaking on the sidelines of the special screening of the epic movie on Sunday in Hamedan, the movie's renowned director Majid Majidis noted that the Islam enemies seek to represent a false impression ...

Tehran, Sept 26, IRNA Muhammad (S), the Messenger of God, renowned Iranian director Majid Majidis latest film about the Prophet of Islam (S), has jumped into the lead in Iran with box office receipts totaling 70 billion rials (about $2 million) since its release a month ago. The film is currently on screen at Tehrans 45 movie theaters and cinemas,...

TEHRAN, Sep. 06 (MNA) Following the warm reception of Majidis biopic Muhammad: The Messenger of God at the 39th Montreal World ?Film Festival (MWFF), this film will get an extra screening on Monday.The authorities of the 39th Montreal World Film Festival, who selected Majid Majidis enormous cinematic project, Muhammad: The Messenger of God as the ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 15 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Air pollution in the southwest and government efforts to settle the problem dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday. At attack on a Shiite mosque ...

[caption id="attachment_148720" align="alignright" width="172"] A still from Majid Majidis Muhammad, Messenger of God. The film is the most ambitious and expensive cinematic project in Iranian history. Photograph: PR[/caption] The most expensive film in Iran's history - a biopic of Prophet Mohammed had been scheduled to have its world premiere in ...

[caption id="attachment_149037" align="alignright" width="181"] Figure 1: A five-story mural depicting the Prophet Muhammads celestial ascension, in Tehran, Iran, in 2008. CHRISTIANE GRUBER[/caption] Anew filmabout the Prophet Muhammad is slotted to have its debut this Sunday at the Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran.Directed by Majid Majidi,...

[caption id="attachment_148720" align="alignright" width="202"] A still from Majid Majidis Muhammad, Messenger of God. The film is the most ambitious and expensive cinematic project in Iranian history. Photograph: PR[/caption] Majid Majidis Tehran-backed production telling the story of Muhammads early years to be shown at Irans Fajr international ...

QOM (Tasnim) - The first screening of the Oscar-nominated Iranian filmmaker, Majid Majidis grand work on life of Prophet Muhammad will be at the 33rd Fajr International Film Festival, slated to open on February 1 in the Iranian capital.     By ...

Tehran, Jan 7, IRNA The film 'Mohammad (PBUH)' directed by Majid Majidi will be screened in inaugural ceremony of the upcoming 33rd Fajr Film Festival, the head of Cinema Organization said on Wednesday. Hojjatollah Ayyoubi told reporters touring locations of the film in Cinematic Township that the film was excluded from competition section of the ...

Tehran, Dec 27, IRNA Irans cinematic festival will kick off in Kuwait on Dec. 28 and run for four days. The festival, which will be held in Kuwaits Laila Gallery artistic complex, aims to promote Iranian art and culture in the country. The event will be held by Irans cultural attach office in Kuwait. It will screen a number of films which were chosen ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Academy Award-winning music composer Allah-Rakha Rahman has embarked on writing music for a big-budget Iranian movie on the life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Indian musician A. R. Rahman, who won Oscars for original score and original song in Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009, is composing the music for Iranian filmmaker ...