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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sara Shahverdi is "doing something unusual" in Iran, filmmakers say [Gandom Films] Growing up in the Iranian capital Tehran, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iranian auteur Mahnaz Mohammadi had to shoot her second fiction feature, Roya, in secret. After all, she has not been officially ...

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, ...

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests. By Adam Satariano Paul ...