Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's ...

Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of an Oscar-nominated film, was arrested in Tehran after signing a statement ...

Director Jafar Panahi visits the Los Angeles Times Studios at RBC House during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) As a child born in a ...

In 2010, Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a ban on filmmaking from the Iranian government and in 2022 he was imprisoned after he inquired into a fellow filmmaker’s arrest. Despite being jailed ...

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association has stepped-up calls for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reappraise its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema ...

On January 8 and 9, the Iranian regime mowed down thousands of protesters all across the country. Raha was one of them, killed by a bullet that pierced her lungs.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Mohammad Rasoulof was facing eight years in ...

Director Jafar Panahi criticised the arrest, emphasising Mehdi Mahmoudian's role as a human rights activist and moral figure.

(AP) Iranian authorities say a prominent center for filmmakers and artists can reopen, more than 20 months after it was closed by hard-liners. The decision, reported Thursday by the official IRNA news ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian and others detained after signing a statement calling Iran's crackdown an 'organised state crime against ...

Marion Cotillard, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Juliette Binoche were among the signatures calling out "the organized crimes committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran against protesting civilians." By Scott ...