This year’s 29th Annual Festival of Films from Iran doesn’t exactly have a theme. However, several films being screened do have a connection to the past — specifically, that time in Iranian history ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi says he plans to return home after touring with his new film, “It Was Just an Accident,” and ...

What happens when the pressure to compete is not just about winning, but about survival? In the new political thriller Tatami, that question plays out through the story of Leila Hosseini, an Iranian ...

Soheil Beiraghi's competition film 'Bidad,' kept secret to protect the safety of its delegation, tells the story of a female singer who refuses to accept that women in Iran are not allowed to perform ...

Already weakened in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, Israel’s once vibrant film and television industry has been halted as producers and filmmakers cope with the escalation of war with Iran.

Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for improperly wearing her hijab. Many spent time at the notorious Evin prison ...

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 ...

The filmmaker, currently living in Berlin, received the inaugural Locarno City of Peace Award during the Locarno Film Festival: "What really concerns me at the moment is how I can stand up to this ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, whose “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was Oscar nominated, is considering making a film in another language. “If I’d want to make a film in Europe right now, or in the ...

“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 ...