April 12, 2021 Ursula K. Le Guin (American author) I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work – not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience. 8Arts & Culture License Holder: Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Managing Director: Touraj Shiralilou ‘The Phoenix’ from Iran awarded Editor-in-Chief: Kambakhsh Khalaji Editorial Dept. Tel: +98 21 88755761-2 Editorial Dept. Fax: +98 21 88761869 at US Indie Short Fest Subscription Dept. Tel: +98 21 88748800 ICPI Publisher: +98 21 88548892, 5 Advertising Dept. Tel & Email: +98 21 88500617 - [email protected] Iranian short film, ‘The Phoenix,’ directed by Farzin Nobarani, Website: www.irandaily.ir grabbed the Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention) at the newspaper.irandaily.ir 2021 edition of the Indie Short Fest – Los Angeles International Email: [email protected] Iran Cultural & Press Institute Film Festival in the US. Printing House: Address: Iran Cultural & Press Institute, #208 Khorramshahr Avenue Tehran-Iran Iran Daily has no responsibility whatsoever for the advertisements and promotional material printed in the newspaper. Iranian architect Nima Keivani selected as judge at Portugal’s LOOP Design Awards Arts & Culture Desk ifilmtv.com ranian architect Nima Keivani was A synopsis of the short film reads, “Energy can neither be created selected to judge the works at the nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed from one form to ILOOP Design Awards in Porto, Por- another”. tugal. Nobarani’s film was a nominee at the 37th Tehran International He is the only Iranian who will evalu- Short Film Festival, ifilmtv.com reported. ate the works of the international event, In a previous interview about the short film, Nobarani said, “I’m Mehr News Agency reported. interested in Albert Camus’ works, so I tried to make a film close to This year, in addition to Keivani, his films”. prominent architects such as Manuel Ai- “The film depicts people’s everyday lives and aims to focus on res Mateus, Masaaki Uemori and Koku- hope. Because the loss of hope is the loss of life,” he added. tou Uemori will be judging at this global Also written by Nobarani, the cast list of the short film includes event, which will take place in Septem- Manouchehr Alipour, Melina Qadimi, Fariborz Shahkarami, Kou- ber 2021. rosh Kia, Atefeh Oranipour, Shabnam Eskandari, Azadeh Akbari, The architectural studio of Keivani Mojgan Aqadavoudian, and Kiana Rahmani. Architects won the best accommodation IMDb qualifier Indie Short Fest holds monthly international com- office of Business Tabloid Magazine in petitions and has a major annual awarding event. The festival aims to the UK. loopdesignawards.com screen independent films from around the world, indieshortfest.com. Pardis Khaneh, Delbar Khaneh, Orsi Khaneh, Kabootar Khaneh, and Kashi Keivani won several prestigious in- Khaneh are other residential buildings ternational architectural awards and has which were designed by Nima Keivani been invited to be a jury participant in and his brother. loopdesignawards.com international architecture awards, key- ‘African Violet’ Keivani, co-founder and CEO of note speeches, panel discussions, and Keivani Architects, is an award-winning including residential and commercial architecture and design exhibitions such lectures in architecture academies and international architect, researcher, and buildings, as well as the restoration of an- as the Design Museum of Como, in Italy societies. to represent Iran university lecturer. In 2009, along with cient monuments. Keivani Architects has 2020, and modern & contemporary ar- The LOOP Design Awards is one of his brother, he founded the architectural already designed and implemented many chitecture of Iran in the Tokyo Contem- the most prestigious and recognized in- at US film fest studio of Keivani Architects. architectural and interior design projects porary Museum, May 2018, and GAP ternational events in architecture, inte- The projects undertaken by this stu- in the Middle East and Europe. In addi- 2017 Melbourne University School of rior design, landscape design, product Iranian feature film, ‘African Violet,’ dio are in different architectural spheres, tion, their projects also were exhibited in design. design and architecture photography. directed by Mona Zandi-Haqiqi, will be screened at the 45th Atlanta Film Festi- val in the US, April 22-May 2. ‘African Violet’ has previously par- Commemorative stamp of Saint Thaddeus Monastery ticipated in other American festivals including Boston, Houston, Texas, St. unveiled in Tehran Louis and Phoenix. The film won the Special Jury Award at the sixth edition of the Tripoli Film rottentomatoes.com Festival in Lebanon. Arts & Culture Desk the coronavirus pandemic. Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, Saeed Aqakhani and Reza Babak are among Also known as the Qare Kelisa (The Black the film’s cast, ISNA wrote. A Commemorative stamp dedicated to the Church), the ancient Armenian monastery is “When Fereydoun’s children put him in a nursing home, his ex-wife Armenian Monastery of Saint Thaddeus in located south of Maku, 20 kilometers north- Shokooh takes him to her house, although her new husband does not quite West Azarbaijan Province, northwestern Iran, east of Chaldoran. approve,” according to the summary of the story. was unveiled on the sidelines of the opening Dating back to the 7th century, the church ceremony of the Virtual Joint Exhibition of is one of the oldest surviving Christian monu- Iran and Armenia Postage Stamps on Sunday. ments in the country. Attended by the head of Iran’s National Little remains of the monastery’s original UK to hit ‘peak drive-in’ this summer Post Company Ramezan-Ali Sobhanifar and structure, as it was extensively rebuilt after it Artashes Toumanian, the Armenian ambassa- was damaged by an earthquake in 1319. as outdoor cinema bookings boom dor to Iran, the ceremony was held at the Arch- In July 2008, the edifice, along with the bishop Ardak Manoukian Museum in Tehran. Chapel of Dzordzor, also in West Azarbaijan, The UK is on track to hit “peak drive-in” this summer with outdoor cinema A selection of historical Armenian stamps, and the Saint Stepanos Monastery in East bookings surging ahead of the lifting of restrictions on some COVID-safe as well as Iranian stamps issued on the Per- Azarbaijan, were inscribed on UNESCO’s gatherings next week. IRNA sian New Year, Norouz, will be showcased in World Heritage List under the name, ‘The Ar- There has been an “explosion” in the number of events being listed to run The commemorative stamp dedicated to the Armenian Monastery of Saint Thaddeus was the joint exhibit, which is held online due to menian Monastic Ensembles of Iran’. unveiled on April 11, 2021. from next week, as drive-in cinema benefits from being included in the first wave of outdoor attractions allowed to resume from April 12 under Boris Johnson’s “cautious but irreversible” roadmap out of lockdown. Ticketing site Eventbrite has seen a 300 percent increase in listings for drive-in events as operators cater to pent-up demand from people bored of be- Egypt shows off 3,000-year-old ‘lost’ city near Luxor ing stuck at home after months under lockdown conditions. Consumers are planning to celebrate the end of lockdown, the Guardian Archeologists showed off their finds man and animal remains dug up from the wass enthusiastically told reporters. But since the announcement, some wrote. at what they say is the “largest” ancient earth, AFP wrote. “We found three major districts: One scholars have disputed that Hawass and “We noticed last year that in most months the terms ‘drive-in’ and ‘outdoor city ever found in Egypt, dating to a Members of the media toured around for administration, one for workers to his team had succeeded where others had cinemas’ were the most searched-for event formats on our site,” said Sebas- golden age of the pharaohs 3,000 years curved brick walls and rudimentary sleep in and another for industry,” he failed by locating the city. tian Boppert, an executive at Eventbrite. “They’re becoming increasingly ago. streets. said. Egyptologist Tarek Farag posted on popular again now; we may even hit peak drive-in this summer, as people look At the site near Luxor, home of the leg- “This is a large city that was lost. It Spaces include workshops for drying Facebook that the area was first exca- to get out and about again.” endary Valley of the Kings, workers care- was connected with the Aton and Amen- meat, making clothes and sandals, and vated more than a century ago by a team Pre-pandemic, August has traditionally been the most popular month for fully carried ancient pots and showed hu- hotep III,” famed Egyptologist Zahi Ha- crafting amulets and small statues. from New York’s Metropolitan Museum. drive-in cinema events thanks to the summer weather. However, last year “peak drive-in” occurred in the run-up to Christmas. Eventbrite registered close to 50,000 people attending about 1,000 drive-in events during that period. That mark is likely to be surpassed in the coming months as a combination of warmer weather and continued restrictions on many other activities fuel the popularity of drive-in cinema. From May 17, competition in the events sector will greatly increase as cinemas reopen under the next stage of the govern- ment’s lifting of restrictions. The first wave of listings of events permitted from next week are mostly drive-in cinema, with some church services. However, data from last year shows that just over a fifth of drive-in events were film screenings, as the pub- lic embraced a wide range of entertainment options from the comfort of their KHALED DESOUKI/AFP vehicles. A fish covered in gold uncovered at the archeological site of a 3,000-year-old city, dubbed ‘The Rise of Aten,’ dating to the reign of Amenhotep III, uncovered by the Egyptian mission near Luxor, on April 10, 2021.