
Now in its 43rd year, the Vancouver International Film Festival brings cinema from around the world to the heart of Vancouver. This year's festival offers a diverse and thoughtful line-up of Persian or Iran-related movies, such as "Googoosh: Made of Fire." Everyone and anyone ...
Iranian women have made history in 2024 Paris Olympics by winning two medals in taekwondo but it could have been three (read on). Nahid KIYANI CHANDEH has won a silver and Mobina NEMATZADEH a bronze medal. Interestingly, in the women's 57-kilogram division, Kiyani defeated Kimia ...
Society and Culture Video Blog, Kodoom.com /Some historians believe that the Bakhtiari are Lurs, who were young descendants of those who survived and fled from Zahhak, a demonic cruel tyrant mentioned in Zoroastrian mythology and in Shahnameh. Lurs took shelter in Zardkuh and ...
Last week, The Smithsonian Museum of National Art in Washington DC featured "Grass" (the 1924 legendary documentary about the Bakhtiari people's harrowing migration) with musical accompaniment by Iranian American musician Kamyar Arsani, a master of the traditional Iranian frame ...
Today, many Iranians choose their spouse after months of dating and courtship. But just a few generations ago, courtship was an elaborate and ceremonious process heavily influenced by the elders in the family. The following 1962 short film (Khastegari, meaning courtship in ...
These are informational videos you often do not see on mainstream media because they address controversial topics which TV sponsors or governments do not like! Yet we list them here due to the importance of the topics./Kim Iversen discusses with her guest wealthy families can now ...