Duality,” the new hybrid feature written, directed and produced by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Nezamdoost world-premiered this ...

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That kicks off a chain of events that causes several people to confront the nightmare they thought they'd put behind them in "It Was Just an Accident," the latest incendiary work from Iranian ...

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A British couple detained in Iran seem to be 'losing hope' after telling their family a recent court hearing had not gone well. Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, were arrested in Kerman, southern ...