"1001 Frames," which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from ...

Even before Saeed Roustayee’s “Woman and Child” premieres at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, the Iranian director’s new work is sparking heated controversy that reflects deep soul searching within ...

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association has stepped-up calls for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reappraise its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema ...

Read: Silenced at home, Iranian filmmaker finds eager audience in France] When we met up in New York, Panahi told me that the film grew out of the seven months that he spent in Evin Prison in 2022 and ...

Mehrnoush Alia's feature debut, world premiering in Berlin's Panorama section, was shot without a permit in Iran: "This issue of power and the abuse of power is so important in today's society." By ...

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, premiered at Cannes Film Festival. Rasoulof has been in exile for almost two weeks after a prison sentence in Iran. One ...

Some 30 film organizations, festivals and professionals as well as freedom of speech NGOs have signed an open letter calling on Iranian authorities to immediately drop all charges against directors ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, long persecuted for his unflinching portrayals of life under repression, returns with It Was Just an Accident, a gripping moral thriller born from his own time in Evin ...

Running time: 105 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, smoking, strong language). In Persian with subtitles. In theaters Oct. 15. There is nothing accidental about the way Jafar Panahi makes movies. The ...

What happens when the pressure to compete is not just about winning, but about survival? In the new political thriller Tatami, that question plays out through the story of Leila Hosseini, an Iranian ...

Writer-director Soheil Beirgahi’s fourth feature follows a rebellious young performer who pays a hefty price for her insubordination. By Jordan Mintzer Depictions of Iran in mainstream U.S. media tend ...