Christiane Amanpour speaks with Academy Award-nominated director Mohammad Rasoulof about his film, “The Seed of the Sacred ...

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

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The animated, live-action and documentary nominees offer a heavy load of topics and talent.

Independent international production company and financier Gold Rush Pictures has signed a deal with Ilya Stewart’s Hype ...

Our film critic reviews the animated category’s candidates, which are playing at Coolidge Corner, and picks his choice to win ...

The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, titled “And All That Is In Between,” features as its centerpiece segments of ...

In his book, The Present Age, the late sociologist Robert Nisbet applied a pithy descriptor to a phenomenon we have seen all ...

Who is Gena Rowlands? To younger viewers who might not know, Rowlands is a solid supporting actress who appears in romances ...

Teenagers on the range, misguided missionaries, a cerulean-faced orphan puppet? The Park City fest took many turns.

His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.

Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely ...