Time: An autumn afternoon in 1964Place: One of the underprivileged villages in Kerman, Iran The schoolchildren had gone home. A…
Year: 2025
I met Ole Christian Madsen, the acclaimed Danish filmmaker, at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece. He had brought seven…
Police characters in films—especially in comedies—are often not portrayed with likable or respectable faces. Aside from crime/action films, in comedies…
Now that Iran is caught in a devastating and inhumane urban war in the Middle East, I want us to…
There are films that rely on dialogue to explain themselves, and there are films that trust images, movement, and emotion…
War always carries with it the scent of dust and blood. The sound of sirens, cracked walls, anxious mothers’ eyes,…
Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), writer, screenwriter, musician, translator, painter, producer, prominent director, and, in fact, the preeminent symbol of the Iranian…
The following is a video interview with with Dr. Persis Karim, Director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San…
Cinema Without Borders Foundation and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies are proud to present the Los Angeles screening of…
Burbank, CA. May 29th, 2025 – At Cinema Without Borders Foundation, we are proud to announce a new partnership with…