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...
‘Beyond Shahs of Sunset’: Interview with Founder and Cardiologist Afshine Emrani
By Fred Parvaneh
Dr. Afshine Emrani is a prominent cardiologist and internist who serves the residents of the greater Los Angeles area. Separately from his medical practice, Dr. Emrani is a prolific blogger known for...
Berlin Film Festival’s Main Jury to Include Tehran-Based Director Mohammad Rasoulof
By Kayhan Life Staff
The celebrated Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof will be one of the six members of the main jury of the International Berlin Festival next month.
Mr. Rasoulof -- whose movie “There is No...
OPINION: Iran’s Role in Protests Against ‘The Lady of Heaven’ Movie
By Potkin Azarmehr
The cinema chain Cineworld canceled the screening of “The Lady of Heaven” after Muslim activists living in the UK protested outside its theaters last week.
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Threats by angry Muslim mobs and the absence...
Two Berlin Festival Films Relive Torture in Iranian Prisons
By James Imam
BERLIN Feb 21 (Reuters) - In “Where God is Not”, Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon´s unflinching account of the torture of former political prisoners in Iran, the director asks his interviewees to relive the horrors of their...
‘The Night,’ First U.S.-Made Film To Be Released in Iran, Impresses U.S. Film Critics
By Tim Cornwell
Sometime this year, an Iranian-American movie will make history. “The Night” -- a hallucinatory horror film by the young director Kourosh Ahari -- will be the first U.S.-produced movie to show in...
‘Revolution on Canvas’: Nicky Nodjoumi Movie Has European Premiere in London
By Firouzeh Nabavi
In 1980, a year after the Islamic Revolution, an exhibition of works by the painter Nicky Nodjoumi at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art was vandalized and shut down because of its...
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...
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Goes To Iranian-American Playwright Sanaz Toossi For ‘English’
By Nazanine Nouri
The Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toossi has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – one of the most prestigious awards in the U.S. -- for her play “English,” her first-ever production.
It’s the...
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...
