Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's ...

Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of an Oscar-nominated film, was arrested in Tehran after signing a statement ...

“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 ...

In a "gender-queering ode to self-transformation,” Filmsaaz reimagines the life of 22-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Paris to tell the present-day story of an Iranian artist in Paris.

If you have ever stumbled upon Iranian cinema pieces like ‘A Separation’, ‘Children of Heaven’, or ‘Taste of Cherry’, you might have had that sudden magical moment. “Wait… this is different. This ...

“The brutal actions of the Islamic regime have escalated to alarming levels, with reports indicating that over 2,000 innocent people have been murdered by the regime using weapons of war, within just ...

Iranian filmmaker Bahram Beyzaie, best known for his 1989 feature Bashu: The Little Stranger, which was restored at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, has died. He was 87. Beyzaie died on his birthday, ...

Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore new Iranian cinema and its global impact on cinema culture. Mark speaks to director ...

Director Jafar Panahi criticised the arrest, emphasising Mehdi Mahmoudian's role as a human rights activist and moral figure.

Planning a movie night with 'A Season for Cinema: Myth and prototype in Iranian Cinema' on any device? Finding where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch this film can be more complicated than ...

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) has accused Iran’s Islamic Republic government of manipulating the facts around the death of filmmaker Javad Ganji, who was killed while ...