Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's ...

The film, which channels Abbas Kiarostami by way of Richard Linklater, had to be smuggled across the Turkish border.

Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of an Oscar-nominated film, was arrested in Tehran after signing a statement ...

"It Was Just an Accident" from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is nominated for the Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay Oscars. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown met with Panahi to ...

The film captures the friendship between an Iranian filmmaker and a Gaza City resident. They never actually meet but speak movingly via video calls. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for ...

The film portrays two young women artists expressing themselves and protecting each other in Tehran’s underground creative circle.| Entertainment News ...

Onstage, along with world cinema-savvy Durling as moderator, were Kaouther Ben Hania ( The Voice of Hind Rajab ); Oliver Laxe (Sirat); Kleber Mendonça Filho ( The Secret Agent ); Jafar Panahi ( It Was ...

Dissident Iranian film director Jafar Panahi told AFP he believes ordinary Iranians risk being "sacrificed" in talks between ...

Nine months before she was killed by an Israeli airstrike, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona started quoting Shawshank Redemption. “Hope is a dangerous thing,” she told Iranian filmmaker ...