Iran Submits Movie by Vahid Jalilvand for Foreign-Language Oscar
Vahid Jalilvand’s drama “No Date, No Signature” has been submitted by the Farabi Cinema Foundation (FCF) to the 2019 Academy Awards as Iran's pick for the foreign-language Oscar.
Since 1956, the Academy of Motion Picture...
Genius Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani Is Remembered in Documentary: Interview
By Firoozeh Nordstrom
Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win the world’s most prestigious mathematics prize, the Fields Medal. George Csicsery’s “Secrets of the Surface” is the first feature-length film about the life and...
Award winning Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani Has A Netflix Hit With ‘White Tiger’
By Nazanine Nouri
The awardwinning Iranian-American director Ramin Bahrani’s “The White Tiger” is streaming on Netflix and topping the charts -- as well as garnering critical acclaim. The film is set in India, and based...
Banned Iranian Directors Are In Competition For Top Berlin Film Festival Prize
By Ahmad Rafat
A movie by two Iranian directors currently facing a travel ban is in competition for the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, or Berlinale, which is due to be held from Feb....
BBC Series on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Is A Tale of Cruelty and Survival, Husband Says
By Natasha Phillips
A new BBC series titled "Prisoner 951" depicts the harrowing and true story of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arbitrarily detained in Iran for almost six years, and the subsequent campaign led by her husband...
Iranian Director Hossein Rajabian to Release His New Film Online for Free
By Azadeh Karimi
The Iranian film director and photographer Hossein Rajabian -- who was sentenced along with his brother, the prominent musician Mehdi Rajabian, to six years imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court in summer of...
The Shah’s Dying Days: Interview with Filmmaker Bobak Kalhor
By Fred Parvaneh
"A Dying King” is a documentary by first-time filmmaker Bobak Kalhor that examines the untold medical story of the late Shah of Iran and the truth behind his death in July 1980.
The...
Tehran Short Film Festival Selection Disputed by 200 Iranian Filmmakers
Two hundred Iranian filmmakers have written a letter to Abbas Salehi, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, objecting to the censorship of works selected for the 35th Tehran International Short Film Festival scheduled...
‘Tehran Taboo’ Animation Movie Has London Premiere
By Tara Biglari
As a pink autumnal sunset descended over London on the evening of October 2nd, eager cinephiles made their way into the BFI Southbank movie theater to watch a preview screening of “Tehran...
Growing Up With Gender Identity Disorder in Iran: Interview with Pooya Mohseni
By Fred Parvaneh
Mohseni is an Iranian-American actor, writer, and activist. A graduate of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and the Maggie Flanigan Studio, Pooya has had a string of lead, supporting and recurring...
