Melisa Sözen stars as a teacher imprisoned for her beliefs who faces a big choice in Mahnaz Mohammadi's new fiction feature, debuting in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. By Georg ...

With protests raging and artists detained, Iranian filmmakers at the Berlinale say global festivals are one of their few remaining outlets to tell the truth — and to be heard. By Tina Ahmadi Krol As ...

The dissident director discusses the choices she made in depicting Iran’s notorious prison for political prisoners and intellectuals where she spent time behind bars Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz ...

Hollywood advocacy group The Brigade has written a letter calling out double standards in the industry, pointing to "selective" outrage and failure to condemn the atrocities being committed in Iran.

A trophy-winning women's soccer team in Iran, along with celebrated actors, joined in nationwide acts of solidarity with the thousands who were killed by state security forces in a crackdown in ...

Aruna Irani & Rajpal Yadav appeal to film industry members for helping Rajpal Yadav as the comedian-actor is undergoing a tough time in Tihar Jail in Delhi due to some financial cases against him, ...

Late in Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated film, It Was Just an Accident, comes a confrontation. An Iranian woman looks into the face of a sadistic prison official and taunts, “You think this country ...

Scrubs fans have spent the past 16 years waiting for Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, John C. McGinley, Robert Maschio, and Judy Reyes to suit back up and return to active duty at Sacred Heart ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated co-writer of Jafar Panahi‘s Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, has been released from Nowshahr Prison in northeastern Iran, according to reports.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Negin Ghadimi, Ilya Ghodsi and Yasin Mirzaei Ghalazanjiri. A fruit seller and father of two killed during his first ...