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There is always a risk of totalitarianism,” warned the filmmaker, who fled to Germany last year and is currently heading up ...

The film won the Best Documentary Award among 29 documentaries competing in the festival last week, ILNA reported. Made in 2023, the 24-minute movie depicts the life of a veteran folk singer from the ...

IN line with the implementation of the cultural exchange program between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Philippines, ...

As makers of award-winning film My Favourite Cake face trial in Tehran, months after rapper Toomaj Salehi narrowly avoided ...

highlights the Iranian film world’s groundbreaking new work, inspired by the women-led protests in 2022. By Farnaz Fassihi A wife, wearing a nightgown and her hair uncovered, lies down next to ...

The best movie I’ve seen so far this year – and likely the best movie I will see – is the Iranian film The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which opened throughout the country on Thursday.

Sayyid Morteza Avini (1947-1993) was an Iranian documentary filmmaker, author, and theoretician of Islamic Cinema. He studied architecture at the University of Tehran in 1965. During the 1979 Islamic ...

Acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof filmed The Seed of The Sacred Fig in defiance of Iran’s strict filmmaking laws. It’s earned him an Oscar nomination — and a prison sentence.

Berlin (AFP) – Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" won a special prize at the Cannes film festival last year and is hoping to go one better at the Oscars on Sunday.