What Can Iran’s Cinema Tell Us About the Current Unrest? Quite a Lot, in Fact

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

Mohammad Rasoulof Is Considering a Return to Iran and Has Three Film Scripts Ready

The filmmaker, currently living in Berlin, received the inaugural Locarno City of Peace Award during the Locarno Film Festival: "What really concerns me at the moment is how I can stand up to this ...
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Want to get into the films of Iran's Jafar Panahi, who went from imprisonment to Cannes? He's happy to help

As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...
Los Angeles Times

Want to get into the films of Iran’s Jafar Panahi, who went from imprisonment to Cannes? He’s happy to help

As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...