It Was Just an Accident showcases Jafar Panahi at his best, blending raw emotion, and political critique in one of Iranian ...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” an Oscar-nominated movie filmed in secret in Iran, highlights the Iranian film world’s groundbreaking new work, inspired by the women-led protests in 2022. By Farnaz ...

This year’s 29th Annual Festival of Films from Iran doesn’t exactly have a theme. However, several films being screened do have a connection to the past — specifically, that time in Iranian history ...

Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran ...

On a cool fall night in October, just hours after Iran had launched rockets at targets in Israel, one of the Islamic Republic’s most famous dissidents sat a New York hotel restaurant and wondered if ...

Writer-director Soheil Beirgahi’s fourth feature follows a rebellious young performer who pays a hefty price for her insubordination. By Jordan Mintzer Depictions of Iran in mainstream U.S. media tend ...

Ashraf Elbolkini, an Egyptian filmmaker and a juror of the 19th Iran International Documentary Film Festival, has praised ...

Oscar-winning Israeli director Guy Nattiv began developing the story several years ago and knew that he needed to collaborate with an Iranian to make the film. It’s fitting that Tatami, the first ...

The dissident filmmaker is currently in the U.S. and set to attend the Gotham Awards on Monday night, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Acclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi said on Thursday he plans to return home after touring with his new film, “It ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof fled his country this year after secretly shooting a movie that has now been nominated for an Oscar. He told RFE/RL the film was inspired by a prison guard he spoke ...

Jafar Panahi, whose work has earned top honors at major international film festivals—including the Palme d’Or at the 78th ...