Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Alireza Khatami about his new movie, "The Things You Kill." ...

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

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What makes a bad movie? It's hard to really pin down what makes a terrible film because one person's The Room is another person's Citizen Kane. Movies communicate different things to different people.

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that two French nationals were released from an Iranian prison after more than three years in detention on spying charges, which Paris said ...

From poetic masterpieces to defiant acts of resistance, Iranian cinema has given the world some of its most profound storytelling. Join us as we celebrate the visionary filmmakers who reshaped Iranian ...

A federal judge sentenced two men to 25 years in prison for conspiring to murder Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad on Wednesday. Judge Colleen McMahon sentenced the two defendants, Rafat ...

The sole child in Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident knows right from wrong. In the film’s first scene, a young girl is introduced bopping up and down in the backseat of a car, to the beat of a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Discotchari’s new compilation “Tehrangeles Vice” resurrects forgotten 1980s Persian pop songs made in L.A. by ...