Iran’s rich cinematic history has yielded multiple Oscar wins in recent years for narrative/fictional work, as well as a 2026 nomination in the Best International Feature category for Jafar Panahi’s ...

Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's ...

A vérité portrait of a defiant woman who breaks through gender norms in a village in north­west Iran, Cutting Through Rocks ...

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) was back at the Berlinale this year with a stand, flashmob and a ...

Image Image courtesy of A Move documentary. Will the Trump administration start a war with Iran? Many security experts expect ...

Documentary filmmaker and activist Mojgan Ilanlou says Iran is like “a patient in the throes of death,” warning that the country’s social and economic crises have spread beyond traditional fault lines ...

In a room of 1,500 men, Sara Shahverdi becomes the only female leader in her region of Iran - a new film joins her as she ...

Making history as Iran’s first-ever Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, a breathtaking new film chronicles the extraordinary life of a lone female leader fighting for change in a patriarchal r ...

In Iran's 2022 protests, security forces deliberately targeted women's faces, especially their eyes, intending to blind them. This brutal tactic was used to silence and intimidate women leading the ...

Her film Roya tells the story of a fictional teacher detained in Evin, but it is also deeply personal for Mohammadi, who has been arrested multiple times in Iran on charges of propaganda.

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi - known internationally for works such as "Women Without Shadows,” “Travelogue" ...

Reporting on the ground under tight controls, they turned to open-source intelligence and visual forensics to help tell the story of Iran’s nuclear program. Sebastian Walker examining one of the ...