MNA The 2018 Cannes jury announced the awards of the festival's 71st edition, with Japans Shoplifters winning Palme dOr and Irans Panahi sharing best screenplay prize for 3 Faces. Under the presidency ofCate Blanchett, the juryincluded filmmakersAva DuVernayand Denis Villeneuve and actorsKristen Stewartand La Seydoux, as well as Chinese actor ...

IFP- Jafar Panahi, a member of the Academy, said in a Farsi article in Iran newspaper that the countrys official submission to the Academy Awards is head and shoulders above numerous other films from around the world which were not nominated for the prestigious awards. Here is the full text of his Sunday remarks in praise of Farhadi and his film ...

The Leipzig Media Foundation has decided to award this years Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media to Jafar Panahi, an Iranian film director. The German foundation has said that the 30,000-euros award will be bestowed to Jafar Panahi and Turkeys Nedim Sener, citing the pairs efforts in favor of freedom in their countries. The award ceremony ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Monday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The imprisonment of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads deputy for corruption dominated the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Monday. Also in the news were the meetings ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Irans chief negotiator: Grounds ready for reaching final nuclear deal Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is also the countrys chief nuclear negotiator, underlined that the ground is ready for reaching a comprehensive deal with six world powers over Tehrans nuclear ...

[caption id="attachment_151157" align="alignright" width="184"] Hana Saeidi, niece of absent Iranian Director Jafar Panahi, holds the Golden Bear for the best Film for 'Taxi' she received on his behalf during the award ceremony at the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)[/caption] BERLIN ...

Berlin, Jan 31, IRNA -- Four Iranian films are to be screened at the 65th edition of the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale), scheduled to to take place in the German capital from February 5 through 15, the spokeswoman of the Berlin film event, Frauke Greiner told IRNA. Jafar Panahi's 'Taxi' will be in the running for this year's top award -- the Golden ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 07 (MNA) The Guardian's film critic put two Iranian films in his list of top 50 films of the demi-decade. In an article published yesterday, the Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw shortlisted Irans Oscar winnerA Separation and This Is Not a Film as two of his 50 top films in the past five years. In midway through the 2010s, Peter Bradshaw ...

By Associated Press Political prisoners protest snap body searches, abuse by prison guards in main Tehran prison, opposition website says DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- At least nine Iranian women political prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest snap body searches and abuse by prison guards at the main prison in Tehran, according ...

It has been cancelled a European Parliament delegation visit to Tehran after the group asked to meet two Iranian activists awarded a top EU rights prize. A delegation of the European Parliament (EP) members was scheduled to make a six-day visit to Iran to hold talks with Iranian political figures, Press TV reported. While, Fars News Agency quoted ...

TEHRAN, April 12 (MNA) Three films by Iranian directors will go on screen in Minneapolis Saint Paul Film Festival to be held April 14-19. Trapped directed by Parviz Shahbazi participated in World Cinema section of the festival. It was awarded the best director prize at 31stInternational Fajr Film Festival. Fish and Cat directed by Shahram Mokri and ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 24 (MNA) A Parliament National Security and Foreign Commission member has said Foreign and Intelligence ministries are responsible for EU delegation antics. Mehdi Davatgaritold Mehr News Parliament correspondent the EU parliamentary delegation visited Tehran on an invitation by Kazem Jalali. The visit was in line with parliamentary ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 22 (MNA) Irans Parliament speaker has described the EU parliamentary delegation action as absurd and surreptitious. Mehr News reported that Ali Larijani addressed the issue of EU delegation meeting in Greece embassy with Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi. Since a long time ago, an EU delegation demanded that they visit Iran, which ...

Irans lead nuclear negotiatior, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, broke the silence about the technical talks on the interim nuclear agreement on Saturday he saidthere had been little progressin the discussions between experts of Iran and the 5+1 Powers. Araqchitold State TV, The talks that extended to a third day are making progress but slowly....

The Iran Project- Iranian lawmakers summonForeign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif andIntelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alavi to explain over EU Parliamentarians trip to Iran. Iranian hardliners have criticized the Foreign Ministry for a meeting between the European Parliamentary delegation and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi. The ...

The Iran Project- A delegation from the European parliament has traveled to Tehran for a six-day visitto meet with Iranian lawmakers and officials including a group of female MPs, representatives of nongovernmental organisations, and human rights activists. The aim of this visit, which began on Thursday, is to strengthen relations. It was the first ...

The European Parliament, the European Unions only directly elected body,nominatedMr. Snowden for the prize late Monday. The others in contention include Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl who was 14 when the Taliban shot her in October but survived to become a potent voice in the struggle for education rights for women; Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a former ...

Iranian government seizes passports of director Kambuzia Partovi and actor Maryam Moghadam, preventing them from promoting film abroad The co-director and star of Iranian dissident film-makerJafar Panahi's Berlin prizewinner Closed Curtainhave had their passports confiscatedby officials. The move means Kambuzia Partovi and actor Maryam Moghadam ...

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 ...