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9/6/2011
Montreal Festival Awards Iranian Film
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Tehran, Sept. 4, 2011: Iranian filmmaker Bahram Tavakkoli+s feature-length movie Here without Me has been awarded at the 2011 edition of Montreal+s World Film Festival in Canada.
The film+s lead actress Fatemeh Motamed-Aria also won the Best Actress Prize of the grand Canadian festival, ISNA reported.
A contemporary Iranian adaptation of Tennessee Williams+ Glass Menagerie, Here without Me recounts the story of a single mother working hard to find a match for her shy and lame-legged daughter, while her son dreams mostly of the cinema and running away from family obligations.
This year+s World Film Festival which ran from August 18 to 28, 2011, screened feature-length Films, shorts and documentaries by a number of young Iranian directors such as Mohammad-Reza Farzad, Reza Mirkarimi, Ronak Taher and Shahin Parhami.
The Belgian coming-of-age comedy Hasta La Vista (Come as You Are) directed by Geoffrey Enthoven won this year+s top jury and audience awards.
The Montreal jury led by Spanish director Vicente Aranda also granted its special Grand Prix award to Japanese director Masato Harada+s Chronicle of My Mother.
The World Film Festival presented some 230 feature-length and medium-length Films along with 153 shorts from more than 70 countries.
The event also screened 383 international and 51 North American premieres.
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 8/14/2012
Two earthquakes in Iran kill more than 300 and injure 5,000
Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people. |
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 8/13/2012
Iranian wrestlers win 2 bronze medals
Iranian wrestlers Ehsan Naser Lashgari and Komeil Qasemi have won bronze medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. |
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 8/6/2012
Iran to exhibit works by Gunther Uecker
Iran is planning to exhibit works by modern German sculptor and installation artist Gunther Uecker at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts. The event will be held from September 16 to November 1, 2012 ... |
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 8/4/2012
"When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830-1835" opens at Cantor Arts Center
STANFORD, CA.- Long before iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh was sentenced to 25 lashings for drawing a parliament member in a soccer jersey, 19th-century caricaturist Honoré Daumier and his colleagues ... |
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 8/1/2012
Farhadi’s film takes N America by storm
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film A Separation has taken the North America’s movie theaters by storm as the second top-grossing foreign-language film in 2012. |
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 7/30/2012
London to exhibit installation by Iran’s Shirin Sabahi
The Saatchi Gallery is slated to display an installation work created by the Iranian artist Shirin Sabahi in the British capital of London.
The event is part of the 2011 Contemporary Art Prize (CAP) ... |
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 7/24/2012
US, Iranian team excavate Siraf
A team of American and Iranian archaeologists has launched underwater excavations at the historical port of Siraf in the Persian Gulf. |
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 7/22/2012
Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Cathrine David opens at Vienna's Secession
VIENNA.- Mutatis Mutandis brings together a number of works that explore the complexity of contemporary events, materiality, history, and memories, and propose possible re-presentations. Discontinuous ... |
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 7/7/2012
The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened on Friday, July 6th.
The first day of The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened among the unexpected attendance of the audience. |
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 7/2/2012
UNESCO registers Isfahan Friday Mosque
Isfahan’s Friday Mosque has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, making it the 14th Iranian site registered on the roll. The independent, 21-member World Heritage Committee announced the ... |
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