As press conference remarks are clipped and amplified online, some filmmakers worry that speaking freely could invite instant backlash.

On Jan. 22, the Motion Picture Academy announced the 2026 Academy Award nominations. As expected, Ryan Coogler’s ...

Dissident director Mahnaz Mohammadi on depicting Iran’s Evin Prison, where she spent time behind bars, in Berlin Film 'Roya.' ...

US President Donald Trump says regime change in Iran would be “the best thing,” as the US military reportedly prepares for ...

Her second fiction feature, starring Turkish actress Melisa Sözen, premieres in the Berlinale's Panorama section: "I didn't ...

Jafar Panahi, Kaouther Ben Hania, Oliver Laxe, Gabriel Domingues and Olivier Bugge Coutté discuss their Oscar-nominated films ...

Melisa Sözen stars as a teacher imprisoned for her beliefs who faces a big choice in Mahnaz Mohammadi's new fiction feature, debuting in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.

A conversation between Daro Sulakauri, Forough Alaei, Kiana Hayeri, Laura Pannack, Maria Abranches, Ofir Berman and Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda, moderated by Anastasia Taylor-Lind.

47 years ago today, Iran was declared an Islamic republic, after a year-long revolution that toppled a Shah and sent shockwaves throughout the world. And this anniversary sees the regime in its ...

Onstage, along with world cinema-savvy Durling as moderator, were Kaouther Ben Hania ( The Voice of Hind Rajab ); Oliver Laxe (Sirat); Kleber Mendonça Filho ( The Secret Agent ); Jafar Panahi ( It Was ...

After more than 15 years of draconian measures, culminating in an ongoing internet shutdown, the Iranian regime seems to be ...

Detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has received another prison sentence of over seven years.