Directors Fateme Ahmadi, Mohammadreza, Eyni, Sara Khaki and Pegah Ahangarani reflect on the state of their country’s cinema.

Iranian director, actress and activist Pegah Ahangarani is in Cannes with documentary “Rehearsals for a Revolution,” which ...

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Modern Affairs continues with a video on the Iranian Revolution of 1979, as we discuss why it happened. Why did the Iranian Revolution ...

For too long, the world has ignored a painful truth: the Islamic Republic of Iran and the fanatical clerics that control it have built their identity and ideology on vicious antisemitism and ...

These groundbreaking films by Iranian women directors explain the deep-rooted origins of the Iranian feminist movement.

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For Iranian artists long exiled from their homeland, the conflict has heightened the difficulties and dangers of keeping in touch with family and colleagues in Iran. “We have been cut off,” said ...

The Islamic Republic is neither a classical centralized state nor a purely insurgent organization. It is a hybrid ...

For too long, the world has ignored a painful truth: the Islamic Republic of Iran and the fanatical clerics that control it, have built their identity and ideology on vicious antisemitism and ...