Jafar Panahi, the most talked-about, globally esteemed Iranian film-maker of this century, will go to the Oscars next weekend, very possibly as American and Israeli missiles continue to rain down on ...

On the assumption that Americans should understand who we’re bombing, here are five excellent Iranian films, all streaming ...

Iran has summoned France's representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised the Cannes-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression.” ...

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 ...