Filming started two weeks before the "Woman, Life, Freedom" protest movement in Iran in 2022 sparked by the arrest of a 22-year-old student Mahsa Amini for a dress code violation who later died in ...

"Hatred cannot be the path," says Amirali Navaee as he gets ready to world premiere his debut feature film at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

This slow burn thriller from Iran exposes the brutality of authoritarianism and its devastating impact on families.

The 23-year-old sparked a nationwide manhunt after he escaped Wandsworth Prison underneath a food delivery truck. Now he'll be locked up (hopefully without escape) for at more than 14 years.

Murat Palta makes a splash in the Turkish art world by imagining how a 16th-century Ottoman miniaturist would depict the ...

Reviews of Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s Special Jury Prize winner at Cannes and the Amy Adams black comedy. Read more ...

Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has ...

Eagerly-awaited as one of the star projects of the new Nordic Gateway strand of the Göteborg Film Festival, a new section connecting international features to Nordic partners, “Honor of Persia,” the ...

The war satire “Atropia” about actors in a military role-playing facility won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film ...

Maryam Keshavarz's The Persian Version is made to feel like a warm Persian patchwork quilt, bursting at the seams with vivid ...