Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
Niloufar Talebi and The Translation Project are the forces behind a really cool event going on in San Francisco this week: the inaugural Iranian Literary Arts Festival, which features film screenings and the world premiere of ICARUS/RISE, a multimedia play inspired by contemporary Iranian poetry. Entry to the festival comes with buying a ticket to […]
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The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is hosting an Iranian film festival. Here are the deets:
The Fourteenth Annual Boston Festival of Films from Iran (click for the schedule)
Nov 9-24, 2007
Lots of great films on the schedule: The photo above is from 10 + 4, a documentary by actress/painter/filmmaker Mania Akbari, about her battle with […]
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The 2007 CinemaEast film festival, which features quite a few contemporary Iranian movies, is happening right now in New York City at my favorite theater, the IFC Center. The festival ends November 15, so catch what you can this week.
I highly recommend “Tehran Has No More Pomegranates” (Tehran Anar Nadarad), by Massoud Bakhshi; it’s a […]
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Iranian-American Paris Marashi is one of the few live bloggers at the PopTech conference. Check out her posts on her blog and at Sounds Iranian.
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Don’t you hate it when film reviewers employ stale cliches about films, like,”You’ll laugh; you’ll cry…”? I do, too. Yet here I am, only having watched the trailer and “Making of Persepolis” (available on the film’s beautiful website), and I know for a fact that when I finally see Persepolis on November 10th, […]
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I’m writing a review of the show for another site and will link it here when it’s up… unfortunately, their sound check meant I could only squeeze in an interview with Babak Khiavchi before I had to run off to Mehregan down the street (more on that soon, too)… so Babak Khiavchi is now my […]
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I’m sort of intimidated by Ardeshir Farah (weell, all these guys but him most of all…) but he’s a little more accessible after seeing him dance along to continued of “Afsoos” - this time with a female backing vocalist, not the same one as their last shows as far as I can tell, but she […]