With the rise of avant-garde filmmakers in the 1960s, Iran’s New Wave emerged, marked by the works of pioneers like Ebrahim Golestan, Farrokh Ghaffari, Hajir Darioush, and Forough Farrokhzad. Later, ...

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

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

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

As the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) this year wakes up to protests over 19 films being stopped from screening ...

TEHRAN — Succumbing to hard-line pressure, Iran’s cinemas have stopped showing a hit film ridiculing the ruling clerics -- a move that could stifle pioneering filmmaking, film industry officials said ...

The University’s Cogut Institute for the Humanities screened the late Dariush Mehrjui’s critically acclaimed 1969 film “The Cow” on Monday. The event, which followed a panel discussion at the List ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Abbas Kiarostami, the writer-director who showed that Iranian cinema was one of the most original and emotionally engaging in the world, died in Paris on Monday from complications ...

What happens when a movie camera becomes a Molotov cocktail? Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director, found out in 2000. His film The Circle didn’t just critique oppression—it burned the playbook for state ...

Director Matthew Rankin offers a cultural mashup where Persian and French are the official languages of Canada, and a local Tim Hortons serves Iranian delicacies. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief ...

The rise of a post-hijab aesthetic and rejections of linear narratives and techniques have given way to a new Iranian underground cinema. Here's a deep dive into its evolution. With the rise of ...