This article was originally published in June 2023. Thanks to a renewed interest in Iranian cinema among movie lovers, we are republishing it with two additional films. For centuries, poetry was ...

Oscar-winning Israeli director Guy Nattiv began developing the story several years ago and knew that he needed to collaborate with an Iranian to make the film. It’s fitting that Tatami, the first ...

Join Fordham University film scholar Hadi Gharabaghi for an introduction to the emerging Iranian horror movie genre. Learn about its formal and stylistic features as well as its thematic elements ...

CANNES, France – The sun was still shining when the 78th Cannes Film Festival came to an emotional, exhilarating close with the Palme d’Or going to “Un Simple Accident,” from Iranian writer-director ...

Ahead of The Persian Version ‘s wide theatrical release on Nov. 2, Keshavarz spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about portraying the complicated generational relationships among one family’s women, ...

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

Iranian film director Saeed Roustayi said he had to follow censors' orders on the government-mandated hijab to get a permit — Xavier GALIANA A state-approved Iranian movie featuring women constantly ...

Mohammad Rasoulof's ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ both documents resistance and embodies it. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics On a cool fall night in October, just hours after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jafar Panahi is the toast of Tinseltown. “I’ve been running into Paul Thomas Anderson and we’ll speak to each other,” Panahi ...