Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Mokhtari will serve as the president of the international jury of the 4th New Persian Images Festival, where a number of films from Iran will be screened.

Ahmed Malek made history as the first Egyptian to win the El Gouna Star for Best Actor at the El Gouna Film Festival, which ...

Kauê is a Brazilian artist and teacher driven by a sense of wonder for the natural world and the landscape of imagination.

A mysterious trimaran-hulled ship under construction at China’s Guangzhou shipyard appears most likely to be an enormous ...

Ethan Hawke gives a delightfully barbed performance as the lyricist Lorenz Hart, Kathryn Bigelow directs a minute-by-minute ...

Frames,” which screened at Thessaloniki Film Festival this week, is composed of a series of creepy scenes from auditions ...

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 ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi puts a lot on the line for his work. Authorities could again arrest him for speaking out against the country’s hard-line regime. They could send him back to the ...

Iran's greatest living director is free. Jafar Panahi is out of prison, the ban against him making movies has been rescinded and he's now trotting the globe with arguably his greatest work, "It Was ...

“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 ...

For decades, the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran has symbolized the righteousness of the Islamic Republic of Iran's ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Much of Iran’s clandestine cinema, including some of Panahi’s earlier works, is didactic, focused on valorizing the victims of the regime’s injustices. But It ...