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 ...

Abdallah Al-Khatib, who won Best Feature Debut for his film 'Chronicles From the Siege', criticized the German government, saying it was complicit in Israel’s conduct in the war against Hamas. The ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: France’s Jour2FêteProduction and Norway’s Antipode Films have joined Spain’s Fasten Films and Lastor Media to co-produce Pegah Ahangarani and Abbas Ghazali’s untitled feature documentary ...

The call comes ahead of Trump's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Qatar has sought to ease the recent escalation in tensions between the US and Iran. Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim ...

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 ...