It Was Just an Accident showcases Jafar Panahi at his best, blending raw emotion, and political critique in one of Iranian ...

With the rise of avant-garde filmmakers in the 1960s, Iran’s New Wave emerged, marked by the works of pioneers like Ebrahim Golestan, Farrokh Ghaffari, Hajir Darioush, and Forough Farrokhzad. Later, ...

Ashraf Elbolkini, an Egyptian filmmaker and a juror of the 19th Iran International Documentary Film Festival, has praised ...

“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 ...

Galvanized by the movement that emerged after the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, more and more filmmakers are dating ...

What happens when a movie camera becomes a Molotov cocktail? Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director, found out in 2000. His film The Circle didn’t just critique oppression—it burned the playbook for state ...

Jafar Panahi, whose work has earned top honors at major international film festivals—including the Palme d’Or at the 78th ...

The dissident director, who escaped Iran to present his new film, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' in Cannes' competition, called on his nation's artists to resist the Tehran regime. "Don't let yourself ...

Director Matthew Rankin offers a cultural mashup where Persian and French are the official languages of Canada, and a local Tim Hortons serves Iranian delicacies. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief ...

TEHRAN — Succumbing to hard-line pressure, Iran’s cinemas have stopped showing a hit film ridiculing the ruling clerics -- a move that could stifle pioneering filmmaking, film industry officials said ...

The rise of a post-hijab aesthetic and rejections of linear narratives and techniques have given way to a new Iranian underground cinema. Here's a deep dive into its evolution. With the rise of ...