Iranian filmmakers Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani, the creative duo behind the Oscar-nominated animated short “In the ...

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 ...

Mehrnoush Alia's feature debut, world premiering in Berlin's Panorama section, was shot without a permit in Iran: "This issue ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

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

The film was shot without a permit in Iran where the filmmaker knows it won’t get into cinemas because such films typically never receive screening permits. Acting teacher Mohammad Aghebati ...

It was 2022, and he was serving one of several sentences for making films the Iranian regime didn’t like. For 15 years, he had been tangling with authority figures – firstly the censors and ...