Nuri Bilge Ceylan has responded to criticism over attending a state-run festival in Iran, saying it should not be seen as ...

Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or in 2014 for "Winter Sleep" among many other accolades, has ...

Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari has long explored the quiet tensions and bureaucratic pressures of everyday life in Iran, from ...

Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for ...

Iran has summoned France's representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised the Cannes-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression.” ...

The film grants hope for the women of Iran through its thick-skinned subject, putting her resume and grit on display.

In 2022 he believed he had made his last film — this year he won Cannes’s top prize with political kidnapping drama ‘It Was ...

Dissident Iranian film professionals have reiterated calls to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to reconsider its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema org ...

Assembled from cellphone footage shot by its subject Soraya, Mehrdad Oskouei's 'A Fox Under a Pink Moon' is a valuable ...

IDFA's top prizes went to ‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon' and ‘Past Future Continuous,’ directed by Iranian filmmakers.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 's long imprisonment has captured global attention and has now been brought to the screen in the ...

According to Tasnim, the documentary marks a historic milestone in Iranian media production, as it is the first film made in Hebrew and directly addressed to an Israeli audience. “Missiles Over Bazan” ...