The Iranian auteur spoke emotionally in Rotterdam about the violent crackdown on protesters at home, as he premiered 'Sense ...

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 ...

Smuggled out of Iran on a hard drive, Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz’s film combines the daring of Jafar Panahi with the ...

Iran's greatest living director is free. Jafar Panahi is out of prison, the ban against him making movies has been rescinded and he's now trotting the globe with arguably his greatest work, "It Was ...

As the protests unfolded, the Iranian director was in Los Angeles to promote his latest film, “It Was Just an Accident,” a ...

India, Aug. 15 -- Iranian cinema is among the very best in the world, exemplified by the works of auteurs such as Majid Majidi, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi. Critics hail Iranian ...

CANNES, France — Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hadn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than 15 years. Panahi, one of the leading international ...

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 ...

Vahid Jalilvand's film, which has scooped a host of other awards aboard, tells the tale of two men tormented by guilt over the death of a boy in a road accident, set against a background of social ...

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 ...