Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s first feature in five years received a warm welcome in Cannes tonight as an ...

For women in Iran, life changed dramatically after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The new Islamic Republic of Iran enforced compulsory veiling, legalised polygamy, severely restricted women’s rights to ...

French director Mahsa Karampour about her and her brother, a former member of indie rock band The Yellow Dogs, follows the ...

By Miranda Murray CANNES, France, May 20 (Reuters) - For Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani, making her documentary ...

With protests raging and artists detained, Iranian filmmakers at the Berlinale say global festivals are one of their few remaining outlets to tell the truth — and to be heard. By Tina Ahmadi Krol As ...

In Rome on the evening of April 4, as Iran was being pounded by U.S. and Israeli missiles, a large crowd celebrated the Persian new year in the Eternal City’s Alcazar club dancing to Middle East beats ...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig captures Iran’s 2022 uprising through one loyalist family’s collapse. A vital ...

With no end in sight to the ongoing war in Iran - both Iran and the U.S. this week seized ships trying to move through the Strait of Hormuz - the country's filmmakers say they feel both "under attack" ...