The Rock (Bard) a short documentary film from Iran directed by Hamid Jafari is up for a chance for an Oscar…
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Naser Malek Motii, the superstar of Iranian cinema for almost three decades, passed away after a long illness in the…
“No Date, No Signature”, directed by Vahid Jalilvand is Iranian entry for Best Foreign language Film Award. “No Date, No Signature” has…
A real friend of cinema, who devoted his life into finding the real meaning of cinema as art, is not…
Surfing the Facebook page of Kamran Shirdel, a wonderful friend and artist and also pioneer of documentary filmmaking in Iran…
The imaginative world of a 9-year-old girl is superbly captured in writer-director Narges Abyar’s meandering but fascinating Breath (Nafas), which…
A group of seasonal agitators who seem to surface every time there is a film relating to Rajputs. A filmmaker…
TORONTO—Despite persistent foreign aggression against their country, Iran still has a flourishing cultural environment. Its films are recognized the world…
For years, Iran has proved a formidable force in Middle-Eastern cinema. After Majid Majidi’s Children of Heaven lost out to Roberto Benigni’s Life…
“My Brother, Khosro”, an intelligent movie, deals with a pain, a pain that without any pessimistic approach is part of…