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 ...

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 ...

Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's underground arts scene to... Their film was shot in secret and smuggled out of ...

A feature film shot covertly in Iran won a jury award for ensemble cast at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Between war and recent street protests, the filmmakers had many challenges getting The ...

In a "gender-queering ode to self-transformation,” Filmsaaz reimagines the life of 22-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Paris to tell the present-day story of an Iranian artist in Paris. By Georg ...

In 2010, Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a ban on filmmaking from the Iranian government and in 2022 he was imprisoned after he inquired into a fellow filmmaker’s arrest. Despite being jailed ...