The world is a place for virtuous people to do good deeds and to be assigned with rewards for the same. Only in this world they could trade with Allah’s blessings and only while living here they could barter their good deeds with His blessings and rewards.

Director Bahram Beizaei began shooting his latest film ’When We All Are Asleep’ on Thursday.
According to Fars news agency, ’When We All Are Asleep’ is Beizaei’s 10th film which stars Mojdeh Shamsaei and Hessam Navvab Safavi.
Majid Moshiri, Shaqayeq Farahani and Alireza Jalali-Tabar are also in the cast.
Beizaei received the film’s production permit last October. However, the shooting was delayed since he had ’Afra’ on stage at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall until recently.
Beizaei’s other credits include ’Dog Killing’.

’It’s Always Late for Freedom’ by Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei won the mid-length short documentary award at the Canadian international documentary festival, Hot Docs.
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, the award was granted to the documentary for its eye-opening portrait of Tehran Youth Correctional Center.
“The film rose above its competitors by offering an element of discovery and by challenging the viewer’s preconceptions,“ the jury noted, according to IRNA.
’It’s Always Late for Freedom’ is a documentary with no screenplay. It is the story of three teenage boys at Tehran Youth Correctional Center.
The film, which looks at the social problems of addiction, poverty and divorce, has no actors and, in the words of the director, there are only young boys acting out their lives in conditions beyond their control.
The festival also screened four Iranian movies ’Tehran Has No More Pomegranates’, directed by Masoud Bakhshi, ’The Red Card’ by Mahnaz Afzali, ’Where Do I Belong?’ by Mahvash Sheikholeslami and ’Head Wind’ by Mohammad Rasoulof in its ’Spotlight on Iran’ section.
A total of 170 films from 36 countries are participating in the event which ends today-Sunday.

The Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) is holding the 14th edition of the center’s annual weeklong festival in Iranian provincial capitals.
The event titled ’Image of the Sun’, seeks to introduce children to the cultures of different regions of Iran, Fars news agency reported.
Handicrafts, regional costumes and booklets produced by children on folk culture of their provinces are on display at the event.
Storytelling sessions, puppet plays, painting, calligraphy and pottery workshops will also be held during the festival.
Representatives of Kermanshah, Bushehr, Khorasan Razavi and Mazandaran provinces will narrate folk tales and perform plays to introduce their oral tradition to Tehran residents.
Literary figures, including Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi as well as veteran theater artists such as Morteza Ahmadi are to deliver speeches at the event which runs until May 1.

A retrospective of celebrated Hungarian director BŽla Tarr will be held at the cinematheque of Tehran’s Sepideh movie theater.
’The Prefab People’, a realistic black-and-white narration of the life of a once-caring couple who are suffering economic hardship, will be screened on May 4, MNA reported.
Next comes ’Damnation’ on May 15, the story of Karrer who plods his way through life in quiet desperation.
Being an adaptation of Krasznahorkai’s epic novel, Tarr’s ’Satantango’ tells the story of a group of lost souls from a collective farm who choose to follow a messiah leading them to an uncertain future in the ashes of the Communist utopia in Hungary. At the end of the day, they would stand face to face with the emptiness and futility of their shabby existence.
The film is a 415-minute masterpiece which will be screened on May 16 as well as on June 18-15.