"Hatred cannot be the path," says Amirali Navaee as he gets ready to world premiere his debut feature film at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

The natural and formalistic collide in 'Cutting Through Rocks,' a Sundance documentary about the first councilwoman in an ...

Mohammad Rasoulof, director of the Oscar-nominated film "The Seed of the Sacred Fig," is standing behind the members of his ...

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig Tre e premiered in Cannes last May, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Golestani and male lead ...

The Yugoslav Film Archive has announced that the 23rd Iranian Film Festival will be held from February 3 to 6. Following the official opening, there will be a free screening of the film “Simina’s ...

Sundance: Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s precisely lensed documentary follows the first councilwoman in the history of ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof fled his country this year after secretly shooting a movie that has now been nominated for an Oscar. He told RFE/RL the film was inspired by a prison guard he ...

Mohammad Rasoulof had crossed the Iranian border on foot into exile before the Tehran authorities got wind of his covertly shot new film The Seed of the Sacred Fig. In this domestic conspiracy ...

Based on the story of the Iranian-Canadian filmmaker’s parents, the semi-autobiographical film is set in 1979, at the height of the Iran Hostage Crisis. It follows the story of young Babak (played ...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has expressed its solidarity with Iranian director and actress Soheila Golestani, ...

The annual event at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Rice Cinema continues to showcase the rich and often iconoclastic ...