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 ...

Oscar-winning Israeli director Guy Nattiv began developing the story several years ago and knew that he needed to collaborate with an Iranian to make the film. It’s fitting that Tatami, the first ...

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 ...

He works in mysterious ways.

CANNES, France – The sun was still shining when the 78th Cannes Film Festival came to an emotional, exhilarating close with the Palme d’Or going to “Un Simple Accident,” from Iranian writer-director ...

We look at "Universal Language," a new movie that follows three storylines in a city that is a cross between Winnipeg and Tehran. The new movie "Universal Language" draws a line between two very ...

Rasoulof, who fled Iran after being given an eight-year prison sentence, will attend the world premiere of his latest film, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig.' By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

Asghar Farhadi remembered the filmmaker and playwright, who died due to complications from cancer, as his "great teacher." ...

Widespread tributes have been shared for Bahram Beyzai, a giant of Iranian cinema and theatre, who has died aged 87 in the US. The front pages of Iranian newspapers mourn his loss, with opposition ...

Director Mohammad Rasoulof attends the "Lerd (Un Homme Integre)" photocall during the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2017, in Cannes, France. — Andreas Rentz/Getty ...