Headlines out of Iran often focus on economic and political strife, and earlier this year the country’s war with Israel. But ...

Co-directed by Israeli-Iranian duo Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir, the sports drama Tatami will make its San Diego debut at the Media Arts Center on Friday. First premiering at the Venice Film Festival in ...

Arienne Mandi plays Iranian judoka Leila Hosseini in the new film Tatami, co-directed by Guy Nattiv and Zar Amir. Michel Martin is a host of Morning Edition. Previously, she was the weekend host of ...

Soheil Beiraghi's competition film 'Bidad,' kept secret to protect the safety of its delegation, tells the story of a female singer who refuses to accept that women in Iran are not allowed to perform ...

Running time: 105 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, smoking, strong language). In Persian with subtitles. In theaters Oct. 15. There is nothing accidental about the way Jafar Panahi makes movies. The ...

Already weakened in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks, Israel’s once vibrant film and television industry has been halted as producers and filmmakers cope with the escalation of war with Iran.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, long persecuted for his unflinching portrayals of life under repression, returns with It Was Just an Accident, a gripping moral thriller born from his own time in Evin ...

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 ...

Iranian director Soheil Beiraghi almost landed in prison for his latest film, Bidad. Now it's landed him the Special Jury Award at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech ...

“What else is left for them to do that they haven’t done yet?” asks resilient Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was sentenced to six years in prison for “propaganda against the system” after planning ...

The intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors embraced at length. Panahi bowed to “a god of cinema.” Scorsese challenged ...