"Hatred cannot be the path," says Amirali Navaee as he gets ready to world premiere his debut feature film at the Rotterdam ...

A romantic drama about an elderly couple who share a night together to escape their loneliness has landed its Iranian ...

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 ...

In 2019, a ceremonial event in his honor was held at Iran’s House of Cinema to recognize his significant contributions to the Iranian movie industry. The second tribute was dedicated to Reza Babak, ...

Children’s experience and tense family drama have been at the heart of many of the greatest Iranian films. Ahead of the release of the Oscar-nominated thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig, we recommend ...

Rotterdam head calls for 'solidarity,' denounces 'oppression' after 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' star Soheila Golestani faced ...

Six films will be screened during the University of Wyoming Honors College’s second Middle East Film Festival Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 22-23. The event is free and open to the public.

The annual event at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Rice Cinema continues to showcase the rich and often iconoclastic ...

The director risks imprisonment with this film, which reveals the brutality of tyranny in Iran following the 2022 Women, Life ...

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig Tre e premiered in Cannes last May, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Golestani and male lead ...

The natural and formalistic collide in 'Cutting Through Rocks,' a Sundance documentary about the first councilwoman in an ...