Headlines out of Iran often focus on economic and political strife, and earlier this year the country’s war with Israel. But ...

His most recent movie, the Palme d'Or-winning 'It Was Just an Accident,' is only the latest of a 30-year career that's thrown the filmmaker obstacles at every turn.

American filmmakers, for the most part, enjoy luxury and freedoms when making movies in the United States that filmmakers in ...

Mizna is bringing classics of Iranian cinema to the Twin Cities throughout 2025. Its monthly — sometimes bi-monthly — screening series will spotlight historically important Iranian films as well as ...

A serious, often surprisingly comic, search for truth in contemporary Tehran, “Accident” begins as a man accidentally encounters the torturer who destroyed his health and continues to haunt ...

That is but one of the moral questions raised in Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s hard-hitting, sometimes funny and ...

Ten films from Iran are present at the 13th Asian Film Festival Barcelona (AFFBCN), which kicked off on October 29 in ...

Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Mokhtari will serve as the president of the international jury of the 4th New Persian Images Festival, where a number of films from Iran will be screened.

This meaningful film is written and directed by Narges Abyar. Drawing upon her experiences during the Iranian revolution, Abyar tells us the story of Bahar, a young girl who lives with her grandmother ...

The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, banned from traveling, put under house arrest and ordered to stop making films for 20 years. And, yet, Panahi has continually made films.

“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 ...

And during those same years, some of the most important works in the history of Iranian cinema were made—including Oscar nominated films. My previous film, Leila’s Brothers, according to the ...