The recipient of Fajr Peace Award 2018 has been announced. Writer-director Rithy Panh of Cambodia will receive the Award for his cinematic works which mostly focus on humanitarian issues.   Panh...

The 36th Fajr International Film Festival will start on April 19 with the screening of Majid Majidi’s Beyond the Clouds. Starring Ishaan Khatter and Malavika Mohanan, Beyond The Clouds is scheduled...

A new book on Abbas Kiarostami and his cinema will be unveiled in Tehran concurrent with the 2018 Fajr International Film Festival. The book includes articles and translated materials written about...

According to the Secretariat of this year’s event, the director and two cast members will attend the film screening, which is a 2017 co-production of Iraq, Canada, Britain, France, Qatar, and The...

Aga (2018), a new feature film by Milko Lazarov, is an entry in the Competition Section of this year’s Fajr International Film Festival.   A joint production of Bulgaria, Germany and France, Aga...

Academy Award Winner, Jeff Bridges presents this beautifully photographed tour de force of original thinking on who we are and the environmental challenges we face. Bridges, alongside prominent...

  Karen Shakhnazarov, the Russian director of Assassin of the Tsar, is one of the A-list guests of this year’s Fajr International Film Festival. His film will be screened in the Classics Preserved...

  Mansour Jahani - British cinematographer Larry Smith, who is known for his work with Stanley Kubrick, Tom Hooper, John Michael, and Nicolas Winding Refn, will teach cinematography at this year’s...

Are you a big fan of fast-paced movies loaded with action-packed scenes? In this year’s exciting film workshops of Fajr International Film Festival, French director, writer and editor "Olivier...

Dovlatov, Winner of Berlin Silver Bear, to Compete at FIFF 2018: Director, Production Designer Holding Workshops   Dovlatov, a 2018 Russian biographical film about writer Sergey Dovlatov, directed...