Director Panahi Ready to Return to Iran After Cannes to Work On Next Film
By Miranda Murray and Michaela Cabrera
CANNES, France, May 21 (Reuters) - Although he is now free to travel again after a 15-year ban, Iranian director Jafar Panahi said on Wednesday he would be returning immediately to his...
London’s SOAS University Plans Film Festival Honoring Director Bahman Maghsoudlou
By Katayoun Shahandeh
Bahman Maghsoudlou, the awardwinning Iranian filmmaker and author, is receiving a major tribute from the University of London’s School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS): 13 of his films will feature in...
Film Director Lambastes Journalist Over Opposition To Hijab
Marzieh Boroumand, a veteran Iranian film and television director who has come out against the compulsory hijab, has also criticized those who incite civil unrest, particularly from outside the country.
A recent message on her...
Documentary on Ukrainian Airliner Death, Directed by Mania Akbari, Screens in London
By Ahmad Rafat
The London-based Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari has shot a documentary about Elnaz Nabiyi, one of the 167 passengers who died when Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) air defense units shot down Ukrainian...
Venice Film Festival To Feature Iranian Directors Including Nader Saeivar
By Ahmad Rafat
The 81st Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival, will open on Aug. 28 on Lido Island. This year’s event will showcase 188 films -- including feature-length and short formats, fiction,...
Actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi Channelled Own Experience of Iran in Thriller ‘Holy Spider’
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian
LONDON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who fled her home country in 2008 in fear after a private video was leaked, says she channelled her own experience in the thriller...
Iranian Director Rasoulof Likely To Attend His Cannes Festival Premiere
By Ahmad Rafat
Iranian Director Mohammad Rasoulof, who has left Iran secretly, will reportedly be on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of his latest film, “The Seed of The...
Iranian Filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless Gets Major Tribute at London’s ICA
By Tara Biglari
The drab existence of a Turkish guest worker in Germany is the subject of the late Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless's film "Far From Home," which was screened at the Institute of...
Porn Documentary “XSunami” Screened in Iranian Holy City of Mashhad
By Azadeh Karimi
Some 300 people attended the invitation-only premiere of a feature-length documentary film titled “XSunami” ("Memoirs of a Porn Star") at the Hoveyze Multiplex Cinema in the holy city of Mashhad, capital of...
Shirin Neshat Presents Movie in Venice, Opens Photography Show in London
By Nazanine Nouri
Shirin Neshat -- who in 2009 won the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion best-director award for “Women Without Men” -- was back at this year’s festival for the premiere of a movie...
