This article was originally published in June 2023. Thanks to a renewed interest in Iranian cinema among movie lovers, we are republishing it with two additional films. For centuries, poetry was ...

Oscar-winning Israeli director Guy Nattiv began developing the story several years ago and knew that he needed to collaborate with an Iranian to make the film. It’s fitting that Tatami, the first ...

Cinema has been a part of Iran for nearly its entire history. Though the work of Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi is no longer extant ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

There were nightclubs and bars. People mixed freely. Women could dress however they wanted: tight jeans, mini-skirts, hair loose. The king drove around in a luxury Cadillac, appeared to have a soft ...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” an Oscar-nominated movie filmed in secret in Iran, highlights the Iranian film world’s groundbreaking new work, inspired by the women-led protests in 2022. By Farnaz ...