A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

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

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

Celebrating the iconic and unique cinematic culture of Iran, the National Film Corporation (NFC) has organised an Iranian ...

Jünglinge Film is set to tackle right-wing violence with a new legal thriller while developing series projects with X Filme ...

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 ...

And at that point, I thought it would be very interesting to make a film about a family like his, with this profound rift at ...

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

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

Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely ...

A look at the future of the Sundance Film Festival and six of the films that stood out in the crowd this year.