Iranian directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam have appealed for support after they received a court summons and ...

Performer Julia Rahmanzaei tells her story of leaving Iran to pursue artistic freedom in her solo show “I am an Actress, ...

Starring Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir as Lady Macbeth (Lili), the game is co-produced by her Paris-based Alambic Production. Amir draws from her lived experience as an Iranian woman in ...

Rotterdam Film Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic has spoken out against the travel ban preventing The Seed of the Sacred Fig actress Soheila Golestani from leaving Iran to serve on this year’s jury.

Mehrnoush Alia's feature debut, world premiering in Berlin's Panorama section, was shot without a permit in Iran: "This issue ...

Iran-born actress Sahel Rosa recently published two books to raise awareness among Japanese of the realities facing child refugees around the world. Sahel, 39, is in a unique position to do so as ...

Iranian filmmaker and actress Soheila Golestani, who was unveiled as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) Tiger Competition jury, has been barred from leaving Iran to ...

Alia’s intuition in this powerful, deeply uncomfortable experimental thriller is to recast the sadistic sultan as a film director and the virgins he married and murdered as actresses who are ...

Iranian filmmaker and actress Soheila Golestani, who was unveiled as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) Tiger Competition jury, has been barred from leaving Iran to travel to ...