A real friend of cinema, who devoted his life into finding the real meaning of cinema as art, is not…
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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…
I knew Houman Seyyedi as a very talented actor until I learned about him as a film director and then…
Three films from Iran, ‘No Date, No Signature’, ‘A Man of Integrity’ and ‘The Skier’ have earned nominations at the…
Karestan Documentary Film Series made in Iran, are based on lives and works of people whose outlook on life is…