Nonprofit production venture Waterwell, co-founded by “Succession” player Arian Moayed, and nonprofit Nimruz has doubled the funding for their program of Unseen Iran Grants now in its second cycle. Fu

Iranian director Ali Asgari has no desire to repeat clichés about great expectations for things to come. “In Iran, we don’t have high hopes for the future anymore,” he states. “We’ve been waiting for

Having been shot well before the current U.S.-Iran conflict commenced lends “The Fix” a somewhat anachronistic air, albeit one that sits comfortably enough between its other fuzzy points of political

With war still ravaging Iran — six months after the country was attacked by U.S. and Israeli forces — the Venice Film Festival is set to launch two Iranian films that will provide viewers vivid on-the

Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian filmmaker who secretly left his country in 2024 after being sentenced to eight years in prison, will receive the Kurosawa Akira Award at the 39th Tokyo International Fil

This story of Soviet agent and his MI6 handler in revolutionary Iran is a page-turning masterpieceBen Macintyre uses the acronym MICE to describe the reasons people betray their countries: Money, Ideo

Although its story unspools on the precipice of the U.S.-Iran war, Ali Asgari’s gentle family drama “A Bit of Light” was filmed in the conflict’s wake, under shellfire in Tehran. The production was ev

Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Gharaei’s “Falling House” has sold to a raft of international territories following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Paris-based company Paradise City Sales has

BBC News anchor Maryam Moshiri has revealed she has been diagnosed with incurable blood cancer. The anchor, who joined the BBC in 2003, has covered events ranging from the Pope’s funeral to the Iran w

Iranian director Mohsen Gharaei, who is at the Venice Film Festival with well-received drama “Falling House,” is set to shoot a new film titled “Centrifugal Force” that will capture “the impossible ch

Venice film festival: Mohsen Gharaei’s powerfully acted domestic drama watches as the failing patriarch attempts to contain family rebellionIran is a prison and everybody is inside: cons and non-cons;

Referencing Tarkovsky and French theory, the Austrian-Iranian singer is writing some of today’s wittiest music – though she’s ‘too pop for the art world, too indie-darling for the mainstream’You wait

Azerbaijan is very upset about a June 5 report on CNN that Israeli troops had used the country as a staging area for attacks on Iran. The country’s government says that the report, based on anonymous

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is a man of many accolades, including two Oscars and a Golden Bear, but the filmmaker has also managed one thing very few others have: achieving great box-office succes

Iranian director Ali Asgari, who was in Venice Horizons last year with dark satire “Divine Comedy,” will soon be back — in competition this time — with his new feature “A Bit of Light.” Variety is unv