Sotoudeh was among several women who were arrested at the funeral in Tehran on Sunday of teenager Armita Geravand, who died after allegedly being assaulted as they arrested her for not wearing ...
Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi travelled out of Iran with his wife Tahereh Saeedi for the first time in 14 years as the travel ban on him was suddenly lifted. Saeedi on Tuesday night ...
Award-winning Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi, who was detained in Tehran last week, has been ordered to serve six years in jail, Iran's judiciary says. Iranian media said Mr Panahi was held after ...
Hit the Road, the debut feature from writer/director Panah Panahi, is a 93-minute long goodbye of aptly sweet sorrow. Panah, 38, is the son of Jafar Panahi, one of the undisputed titans of Iranian art ...
Tribute to the Iranian director Jafar Panahi and his film 'This is not a film', through which I make a reflection about the economic and occidental values crisis and a celebration of the personal ...
For a guy under house arrest and banned from filmmaking, Jafar Panahi sure gets around! In Taxi, he played a version of himself, reduced to making clandestine filmlets about varied customers stuck ...
Jafar Panahi and fellow Iranian director Majid Barzegar take a 20-minute drive to Kiarostami’s grave, during which time “the two friends speak appropriately of cinema, but also censorship and ...
David Walsh: A number of Iranian films have been concerned with the relationship between the filmmaking process and reality. Why do you think this is? Jafar Panahi: I feel that in order to come ...
Chaos swept through the United Arab Emirates as it faced the most intense rainfall in 75 years, with certain regions ...
The best movies on Kino Film Collection—the streaming service curated and maintained by the arthouse distributor Kino Lorber—are a cut above those of its peers, simply because it’s the cream ...
Arthur Agee, subject of documentary film "Hoop Dreams," dribbling basketball as son Anthony, 3, ... [+] happily looks on. Fictional stories have the ability to mirror reality, to reveal universal ...