IFFR keeps "championing filmmakers forging new paths in cinema," such as a creative tortured for his participation in a ...

After the bloodiest unrest in decades, many Iranians and foreign diplomats see one institution tightening its grip on the state: the Revolutionary Guards, a force that now looms larger than clerics or ...

Even though Homebound’s Oscar campaign comes to an end, it remains a significant Indian film that touched the global audience ...

"It Was Just an Accident" from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is nominated for the Best Foreign Film and Best Original ...

In January 2026, a video circulated online showing an Italian TV program using an image from the American mobster film "Goodfellas" and claiming that it depicted an Iranian family before the Islamic ...

With thousands feared dead and information tightly controlled, the actress warns that inaction will only embolden repression: "Nothing in our recent history compares to this moment of reckoning." ...

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

Iranian state TV has issued the first official death toll from recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed in the ...

Yorgos Lanthimos and Juliette Binoche are among more than 800 film figures who have signed a statement condemning the ...

Iranian Cinema Body Says Government Has Hijacked Death Of Slain Filmmaker Javad Ganji Amid Fresh Oppression Of Cinema ...

Iran also faces much greater threats from outside. The “ axis of resistance ,” a network of allies and proxy militias that ...

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