German producer Silvana Santamaria has come on board as a lead producer on “The Witness,” the new Tehran-set project ...

German producer Silvana Santamaria has come on board as a lead producer on “The Witness,” the new Tehran-set project reuniting Jafar Panahi and ... was recently released from Tehran’s ...

German producer Silvana Santamaria has come on board as a lead producer on “The Witness,” the new Tehran-set project reuniting Jafar Panahi and ... was recently released from Tehran’s ...

Leading lights of contemporary Iranian cinema, including “Holy Spider” actor Zar Amir Ebrahimi, “The Siren” director Sepideh ...

Leading lights of contemporary Iranian cinema, including “Holy Spider” actor Zar Amir Ebrahimi, “The Siren” director Sepideh ...

Rasoulof’s denial of permission to travel comes shortly after revered auteur Jafar Panahi, who had also been recently released from jail, was instead allowed to travel outside Iran on April 25 ...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s invitation to Cannes has ignited a campaign to allow the Iranian filmmaker to leave his home nation. International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR), an Amsterdam-based ...

Iranian officials detained the director alongside Jafar Panahi, who was released from prison in March 2023 following a hunger strike and whom Rasoulof supported during Panahi’s incarceration. Panahi ...