I am astonished and fascinated by Asghar Farhadi’s new film, Parallel Tales. It is something genuinely fresh and strikingly different…
Year: 2026
On the Occasion of Iran’s National Cinema Day Iran’s National Cinema Day offers us an opportunity to look again at…
Paolo Strippoli’s L’estranea (The Spiral), presented in competition at the Venice Film Festival, begins with the face of a working…
Working in animation changes the way you look at children’s entertainment because you begin to notice things that most viewers…
After four films, several of which ended with such emotional finality that audiences had already said goodbye more than once,…
Hammad Zaidi, a Pakistani-American filmmaker, has built a career that moves easily between filmmaking, distribution, festivals, streaming, education, technology, and …
Four years after directing his vitriolic, self-reflexive film Ahed’s Knee, Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid turned to satire with Yes in…
A tiny stage, barely two by three meters. Two amateur actors lounging on comfortable armchairs with a small round table…
Fatal Distraction has reached the No. 1 spot among documentaries on Amazon, bringing renewed attention to one of the most…
At the 32nd Sarajevo International Film Festival, acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, one…