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

In a "gender-queering ode to self-transformation,” Filmsaaz reimagines the life of 22-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Paris to tell the present-day story of an Iranian artist in Paris.

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

"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 ...

Director Jafar Panahi has proven that artists can be imprisoned but never silenced; one can never prohibit an artist from ...

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 ...

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

In early February, Tbilisi tends to move at a different tempo. The city’s hills grow quieter, its cafés slightly more ...

In case you've been living in a cave—or in a Blockbuster Video—for the last several years, contemporary Iranian cinema is brilliant and, by God, important. Kindly turn in your self-respect as a ...

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 ...