Iranian Films Are Among Award Contenders at Venice Film Festival
By Ahmad Rafat
The Venice Film Festival -- which gave Shirin Neshat its best director award in 2009 -- opened on August 29 on the island of Lido. While this year's main competition has no...
Iranian Short Film Association Calls on Government to Ease Censorship
By Azadeh Karimi
The Iranian Short Film Association (ISFA), a nonprofit non-governmental organization operating under the auspices of the Iranian House of Cinema, released a statement recently calling on the Ministry of Culture and Islamic...
Shirin Neshat Talks About Her Latest Film: A Tribute to Oum Kulthum
By Ahmad Rafat
Shirin Neshat – the Iranian visual artist and filmmaker who won the Silver Lion award for best director at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival for "Women Without Men" – was in...
Glenn Close to Star in ‘Tehran,’ Israeli Espionage Series, Playing A British Woman
By Nazanine Nouri
Glenn Close -- the eight-time Oscar nominee, best known for her role in the 1987 movie “Fatal Attraction” – will be starring in Season 2 of “Tehran,” the Israeli espionage series on...
Video Game Revisits 1953 Overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh
By Julie Ershadi
Kurosh ValaNejad was born in Iran in 1966 to an Iranian father and an American mother. He and his older brother Cyrus grew up there until shortly before the 1979 Revolution, when...
INTERVIEW: Niousha Noor, Star of Sundance Winner ‘The Persian Version’
By Fred Parvaneh
The Iranian-American actor Niousha Noor (born Niousha Jafarian) received a major accolade last month: The movie she starred in, “The Persian Version,” won the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the...
Oscars Academy Invites Samira Makhmalbaf, Three Other Iranian-Born Talents to Join
By Nazanine Nouri and Kayhan Life Staff
Hollywood is honoring Iranian-born talent.
Four film-industry professionals have been invited to join the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- the panel that elects the winners...
Jafar Panahi Is Nominated for Two Oscars; Documentary By Eyni and Khaki Also Shortlisted
By Nazanine Nouri
Jafar Panahi, the award-winning Iranian director who has twice been imprisoned in his homeland, has been nominated for two Academy Awards for his movie “It Was Just An Accident” -- which won...
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...
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...
