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

Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam's "My Favorite Cake" was acclaimed at the 2024 Berlinale. Now they are being charged ...

Sacred Fig is the type of work that is monumental simply for existing — but it’s also a gripping political thriller that is ...

If Mohammad Rasoulof was to make just one film worth having to flee Iran for, this gripping family thriller would be it ...

Filming started two weeks before the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protest movement in Iran in 2022 sparked by the arrest of a ...

Since Rasoulof completed his blistering film, which is up for a Bafta and an Academy Award, all but one of them have fled Iran. Rasoulof, 52, a prolific director whose previous features have won ...

"Hatred cannot be the path," says Amirali Navaee as he gets ready to world premiere his debut feature film at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

The two filmmakers are being investigated for 'propaganda against the Islamic Republic' and 'propagating debauchery.' ...

"The Dawn is Too Far" documents some of the stories and experiences of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, sharing the challenges, contributions, and visions of members of this unique ...

When it comes to art corresponding with life, consider the authoritarian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig, written and ...

“This curiosity has always been with me.” Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s new film was inspired by an encounter with one of his prison guards. The spark for his new film was a ...

Iman will soon seek to assert control of his private patriarchy. The story has the air of fable, but plays bold games with convention. A gun appears early, before a dark, droll twist on the usual ...