Real events have cast a shadow over this film, said Clarisse Loughrey in The Independent: while promoting it abroad, Panahi ...

Googoosh’s love songs are both banned and beloved in her homeland. Her new memoir reveals a life as rich and painful as ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi says he plans to return home after touring with his new film, “It Was Just an Accident,” and ...

Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran ...

Iran has sentenced acclaimed director Jafar Panahi to a year in prison and imposed a two-year travel ban on charges of “propaganda activities against the system," according to his lawyer ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan has responded to criticism over attending a state-run festival in Iran, saying it should not be seen as government support.

On a recent evening in the north of Iran’s capital of Tehran, a young woman with long hair fashioned into a high ponytail hopped onto a motorcycle behind a male companion. Not far away, two other ...

The intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors embraced at length. Panahi bowed to “a god of cinema.” Scorsese challenged ...

Running time: 105 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, smoking, strong language). In Persian with subtitles. In theaters Oct. 15. There is nothing accidental about the way Jafar Panahi makes movies. The ...

The Trump administration is blocking Iranian diplomats from accessing the “wholesale club stores” like Costco and purchasing luxury goods while in the United States, State Department spokesperson ...

SINGAPORE, September 16 (Reuters) - Discounts for Iranian oil in China have widened on record stock levels at a major refining hub and as a shortage of import quotas towards year-end hindered buying ...