Financial Tribune- Prominent filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad will serve as a jury member in the Horizons section of the 74th Venice Film Festival, August 30-September 9. She was awarded the Best Screenplay prize for her film Tales at the 71st edition of the festival in 2014, Honaronline reported. Banietemad is an internationally and critically ...

Renowned Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and well-known actor Bahram Radan have been selected as jury members for the 8th Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival, due in September in Los Angeles. The festival is dedicated to short films visualizing an aspect of Iranian art, history, culture, crafts, geography, cuisine, or lifestyle that will ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 10 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Comments by President Rouhani on the fight against violence and terrorism and those of Foreign Minister Zarif on the impact of a recent US congressional bill on nuclear ...

[caption id="attachment_136562" align="alignright" width="118"] Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad[/caption] Leading Iranian female filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad has garnered award for her film The Tales at the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Award (APSA). Bani-Etemad took one of the two jury grand prizes of the festival held in Australia. Another ...

Tehran, Dec 14, IRNA - Several Iranian artists have been honored at the 8th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) festival held in Australia. Director Nima Javidi received the Best Screenplay Award for Melbourne. The film chronicles the story of a young couple on their way to the eponymous Australian city to continue their education. But just a few hours ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Thursday and picked headlines from 20 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Introduction of Mohammad Farhadi, a one-time health minister, by President Hassan Rouhani as his pick for science minister dominated the front pages of Iranian dailies ...

The Talesdirected by leading female filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad represented Irans cinema at the main competition section of the 8th Abu Dhabi International Film Festival. Bani-Etemads social drama is composed of seven short episodes, in which she reveals the fate of some of the main characters in her previous films likeThe Blue-Veiled, Under the ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 01 (MNA) 11 film titles from Iran will be showcased at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. 11 Iranian filmmakers including Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Kamal Tabrizi, Saman Salour, Narges Abyar and Neda Asef will have their films screened at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea from October 2 to ...

[caption id="attachment_97853" align="alignright" width="240"] Academy Award winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi[/caption] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Six prominent Iranian movie directors have launched a campaign calling for a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. The filmmakers include Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, who won the award for best screenplay ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iranian FM raps US for theatrical acts in dealing with terrorism Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at Washington for supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group which is threatening the entire region, saying the United States ...

Tehran, Sept 7, IRNA - Iranian drama Tales directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad won the screenplay award of the 71st Venice International Film Festival in Italy, it was reported on Sunday. Bani-Etemad managed to snatch the award out of 20 top screenplays. Tales is composed of seven short episodes, in which Bani-Etemad reveals the fate of some of the ...

[caption id="attachment_113926" align="alignright" width="229"] Director Rakhshan Banietemad (L) and actor Peiman Moadi arrive at the red carpet for the movie "Ghesseha (Tales)" at the 71st Venice Film Festival August 28, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/TONY GENTILE[/caption] (Reuters) - Two years ago, Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad knew she had no chance ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) An Iranian well-known director and movie producer has lashed out against US over its economic sanctions imposed upon the Islamic Republic. During Thursdays press conference,on the sidelines of Venice Film Festival,for her film Tales, which depicts social problems in Iran, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad hit out at US sanctions upon the ...

[caption id="attachment_113926" align="alignright" width="267"] Director Rakhshan Banietemad (L) and actor Peiman Moadi arrive at the red carpet for the movie "Ghesseha (Tales)" at the 71st Venice Film Festival August 28, 2014.CREDIT: REUTERS/TONY GENTILE[/caption] (Reuters) - Films about a 1960s massacre inIndonesiaand the harsh conditions inIranunder ...

A number of Iranian screen productions have been selected to represent Iranian cinema at the at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in Italy. Iranian dramaTalesdirected by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is slated to contend for the Golden Lion Award with some 20 other productions at the Main section of the festival. Talesis composed of seven short ...

Iranian drama Tales directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is slated to contend for awards at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in Italy. The film will compete with some 20 other productions for the Golden Lion Award at the Main section of the festival. Tales is composed of seven short episodes, in which Bani-Etemad reveals the fate of some ...

Tehran, June 29, IRNA -- Films by noted Iranian director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad will be shown in Tunisia. Head of Iran?s Cinematic Organization, Hojjatollah Ayyoubi, in a meeting with Tunisian cinema officials, decided to hold a film week focusing on Bani-Etemad?s works. Ayyoubi stressed the importance of expanding cinematic ties between Iran and Tunisia....

To measure how much things have changed on the Iranian film scene with the election of moderate presidentHassan Rouhaniin June, one need only look at some of the activity at the recentFajr Film Festivaland market. Movies like Tales, a drama by about economic hardship, which had been banned since 2011, screened at the fest. And London-based Harry/Amir,...

TEHRAN --Irans Visual Media Institute plans to release a package of top movies by three Iranian female filmmakers in the near future. The package will contain several movies by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Tahmineh Milani and Puran Derakhshandeh, Managing Director of the institute Hossein Mosafer-Astaneh told the Persian service of MNA on Saturday. We ...

Leading Iranian female filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad has been appointed president of the jury panel at the 2013 Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). Best-known for addressing social problems in her films, Bani-Etemad will take charge of the judging panel of the New Currents section at the 18th edition of the festival. The artistic director ...