The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) was back at the Berlinale this year with a stand, flashmob and a ...

Melisa Sözen stars as a teacher imprisoned for her beliefs who faces a big choice in Mahnaz Mohammadi's new fiction feature, debuting in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.

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

Her second fiction feature, starring Turkish actress Melisa Sözen, premieres in the Berlinale's Panorama section: "I didn't ...

From prison cells to clandestine sets, Mohammadi discusses Berlinale-premiered ‘Roya’, resistance, hope and why ‘cinema can’t ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, who is nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay for Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, was imprisoned after he signed a letter condemning Khamenei.

India, Aug. 15 -- Iranian cinema is among the very best in the world, exemplified by the works of auteurs such as Majid Majidi, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi. Critics hail Iranian ...

The Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced the director in absentia. Panahi won the prestigeous Palme d'Or with his highly political piece "It Was Just an Accident."This is not the first conviction for ...

Join Fordham University film scholar Hadi Gharabaghi for an introduction to the emerging Iranian horror movie genre. Learn about its formal and stylistic features as well as its thematic elements ...

Vahid Jalilvand's film, which has scooped a host of other awards aboard, tells the tale of two men tormented by guilt over the death of a boy in a road accident, set against a background of social ...

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