Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam's "My Favorite Cake" was acclaimed at the 2024 Berlinale. Now they are being charged ...

His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.

Filming started two weeks before the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protest movement in Iran in 2022 sparked by the arrest of a ...

Sacred Fig is the type of work that is monumental simply for existing — but it’s also a gripping political thriller that is ...

When it comes to art corresponding with life, consider the authoritarian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig, written and ...

"The Dawn is Too Far" documents some of the stories and experiences of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, sharing the challenges, contributions, and visions of members of this unique ...

A romantic drama about an elderly couple who share a night together to escape their loneliness has landed its Iranian directors with legal charges and pressure to stop its release internationally. The ...

Since Rasoulof completed his blistering film, which is up for a Bafta and an Academy Award, all but one of them have fled Iran. Rasoulof, 52, a prolific director whose previous features have won ...

"Hatred cannot be the path," says Amirali Navaee as he gets ready to world premiere his debut feature film at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Iman will soon seek to assert control of his private patriarchy. The story has the air of fable, but plays bold games with convention. A gun appears early, before a dark, droll twist on the usual ...

"They want us to stop the release of the film in different countries," Sanaeeha told AFP by videocall from the Iranian capital. "When a film goes to festival or starts a new release in a new ...