IFFR keeps "championing filmmakers forging new paths in cinema," such as a creative tortured for his participation in a pro-democracy movement, who uses the pseudonym Socrates Saint-Wulfstan Drakos.

The Iranian government has exerted forceful control over its citizens since the Islamic Republic seized power nearly 50 years ago. The pop star Googoosh has firsthand experience of opposition to the ...

Iran has been here before. For decades the country has gone through cycles of protest and repression at the hands of the ...

After a crackdown that killed thousands, Iran’s prosecutor general said on Wednesday that “the sedition is over now,” vowing ...

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

For some Kurds, the wave of protests that began late last month has raised hopes that perhaps, after 47 years of rule, the ...

Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which has banned music. A new policy of deportations by ...