The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) was back at the Berlinale this year with a stand, flashmob and a long-planned panel discussion on why it believes the Academy of Motion Picture ...

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.

This article was originally published in June 2023. Thanks to a renewed interest in Iranian cinema among movie lovers, we are republishing it with two additional films. For centuries, poetry was ...

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.

Dissident Iranian film director Jafar Panahi told AFP he believes ordinary Iranians risk being "sacrificed" in talks between ...

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 ...

The filmmaker, currently living in Berlin, received the inaugural Locarno City of Peace Award during the Locarno Film Festival: "What really concerns me at the moment is how I can stand up to this ...

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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 ...