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The family sets the table for the Persian New Year but it all gets destroyed. With everything ruined and only a few minutes left to go, can the family save Norooz?
The main titles feature song was written and composed by Emmy Award Winner Randy Rogel and Michael Plowman. The song was performed by Rana Mansour. This show comes to you from the producers of 1001 Nights, Babak & Friends and Mixed Nutz: Aly Jetha and Shabnam Rezaei.

The New Year festival is celebrated across the Persian world at the start of the Spring equinox. The SAT-7 PARS channel explains what this joyful and hopeful festival is all about.

For much of the world, it has provided the supreme occasion for renewal, for new resolves and beginnings. The power behind its inexhaustible appeal to the human mind resides in a simple truth: humans need a ritual that transcends distinct and distinguishable groups, peoples and nations to celebrate our common humanity. Nowruz does so by inviting us to contemplate nature as it puts on its most magnificent dress at springtime and to synchronize personal and communal relations with the spirit of nature.

Happy Nowruz to my pals who celebrate all over the world! Nowruz means “new day” and is a celebration of Spring and the new year that can include food and gathering with loved ones. Yay! Nowruz mobarak!

Kian can't wait for Persian New Year! His family has already made a haft-seen, and Kian's baba and maman told him that all the things on it start with S and will bring them joy in the new year. Kian wonders if he could add just one more S, to make his family even happier. Hmm . . . Sonny the cat's name starts with S--but Sonny knocks the whole table over! Can Kian find seven special somethings to make a new haft seen before his family arrives for their Nowruz celebration?

Nowruz [noruz] marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the new year in Iranian Calendar. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox that is the start of spring in the northern hemisphere. This usually occurs on the March the 21st or the previous or following day depending on where Nowruz is observed.

In this documentary, we’ll get to know more about a famous figure in Persian Maqaami music in the eve of Persian New Year.

While touring and watching the Nowruz rituals in Tehran, the film takes a look at the background of this ceremony in Tehran through conversations with Professor Abdullah Anvar, Jahangir Hedayat, Faranak Salvar and Azam Iranpour. In this film, we also see pictures of old Tehran.

Happy Nowruz to my pals who celebrate all over the world! Nowruz means “new day” and is a celebration of Spring and the new year that can include food and gathering with loved ones.

K-von discovers Persian new year. (84min Comedy Documentary)

This heart-warming holiday special is about young Babak who has been raised outside of Iran with little knowledge of Iranian customs and traditions. Already feeling alienated from his classmates, Babak only feels lonelier when cousins Saman and Sousanne visit from Iran...

What is Nowruz? How to celebrate Persian New Year?

Performed at the University of Maryland Iranian Students' Foundation's Nowruz Celebration. Choreographed by Sahra Akbari.

Nowruz is the celebration of the Persian New Year. This year, it's celebrated on March 20. Follow along as Children's Museum Houston educator, Iliana, reads "Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story" by Adib Khorram

In this video we talk about the Nowruz festival, which is celebrated by millions of people around the world.

Today this family are cleaning the house together since the spring and Nowruz celebrations are nearly at our doorstep and we have to be ready for many guests and busy days.

Pardis for Children has produced a series of videos for Asia Society‘s annual event, Family Day: Spring into Norouz . These video series are in English and are intended for non-Persian speaking children who would like to learn about Norouz and its traditions!

Nowruz is one of the ancient traditional festivals that is celebrated today in more than 15 countries, This documentary, going to introduce the traditions of Nawruz in Afghanistan and explore What do the Afghan people do during the Nauruz and spring in Afghanistan?

The film shows the celebration of Norouz (The Iranian new year) in Persian-speaking Tajikistan today. Some of the persian traditional rites of Norouz, such as cleaning the house and cooking Samanoo is common in Tajikistan too.

A film by Dr. Farzin Rezaeian, an award-winning documentary and educational producer, which explores the richness and diversity of the ancient tradition of Nowruz (New Year). This colorful and joyous festival is celebrated across cultures by over 300,000 people in various countries around the world.

Solmaz Naraghi performs his stories and poems with three strings, composes and uses some capacities of Iranian music and native musical shows in the creation and performance of children's works. In his career, he composed a song for the title of Mehmouni program by Iraj Tahmasab (1401).