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

As the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival comes to a close, the winning films have been chosen. Claudia Puig, ...

Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...

The family of Britons Craig and Lindsay Foreman, who have been detained in Iran, said the situation was causing "significant ...

We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and Tehran.

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

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about. The charmingly ...

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

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 ...

Christiane Amanpour speaks with Academy Award-nominated director Mohammad Rasoulof about his film, “The Seed of the Sacred ...

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