The film captures the friendship between an Iranian filmmaker and a Gaza City resident. They never actually meet but speak ...

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 ...

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 ...

Director Mary Darling uses a Baha’i heroine’s persecution in Iran to explore moral courage, forgiveness and the hope of a ...

The Iranian director has been jailed and banned from filmmaking. Will the acclaim for "It Was Just an Accident" protect him — ...

Dissident Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof in May escaped to Europe after receiving a jail and flogging sentence from the country’s authorities for making his latest film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” ...

Saeed Roustaee has revealed that he wonders whether he will be arrested on his return to his native Iran following the premiere of his female-focused drama Mother and Child in Competition in Cannes ...

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 ...

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 ...