Two films from Iran were supposed to show at the New Bedford Film Festival. No one can contact the filmmakers or get their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It Was Just An Accident is considered an illegal film by the Iranian regime - Mubi/Les Films Pelleas Jafar Panahi, the most talked ...

Alireza Ghasemi's 'Rainy Dreams' combines live-action and animation to explore the dreams of displaced children waiting in ...

Growing up in the Iranian capital Tehran, filmmaker Sara Khaki recalls seeing many examples of strong women in a male-dominated society. These were women "fighting for their independence and demanding ...

At the center of the film series is the work of Rakhshan Banietemad. An award-winning filmmaker who emerged in the wake of ...

In Memories of a Window, revolution arrives framed by a phone screen. The documentary short by Chicago-based Iranian filmmakers Mehraneh Salimian and Amin Pakparvar had its world premiere in February ...

The dissident director discusses the choices she made in depicting Iran’s notorious prison for political prisoners and intellectuals where she spent time behind bars Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz ...

People look into the skies in Tehran as the U.S. and Israel launch missiles on strategic sites across the country Getty Images The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) has endorsed ...

Two Iranian films — Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” and the documentary “Cutting Through Rocks” — are vying for Oscars this Sunday, two weeks after the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran.

As the world gets to grips with the growing implications of the U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran, film and TV professionals in neighboring Gulf territories are holding their breath and hoping the ...