Abbas Nezamdoost and the team behind ‘Duality’ discuss the risks of underground filmmaking in post-revolutionary Iran as the ...

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, ...

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association has stepped-up calls for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reappraise its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema ...

After years of being banned from leaving Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi is enjoying his tour of the United States -- visiting ...

The Iranian film “Ropewalker Memories” directed by Hamed Rajabi won an award at the 5th Rojava International Film Festival, ...

The 43rd Fajr International Film Festival will take place in Shiraz from November 26 to December 3, showcasing 45 selected ...

This post was updated June 5 at 8:36 p.m. Long-lost Iranian cinema jewels are being pulled from the archive this June. The UCLA Film & Television Archive annually joins forces with the Farhang ...

Iran won six awards at the 31st Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad,” which was held from October 31 to November 7, ...

Even before Saeed Roustayee’s “Woman and Child” premieres at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, the Iranian director’s new work is sparking heated controversy that reflects deep soul searching within ...

Again and again, teenage Afghan refugee Soraya Akhalaghi refers to herself and her fellow displaced migrants as “playing a ...

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 ...