Independent filmmakers in Iran face a fresh wave of repression and extreme economic hardship because of the war, risking choking off a mainstay of world cinema, industry insiders say. Despite heavy ...

With President Donald Trump recently threatening to destroy Iranian civilization itself, the country’s filmmakers carry on their long tradition of defiant, deeply human cinema forged under censorship, ...

The Iranian revolution of 1979 saw the US-backed rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi collapse almost overnight, to be replaced with an Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The impact of ...

Cutting Through Rocks, Daria's Night Flowers, Iranian cinema, It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi, Maryam Tafakory, Sara Shahverdi, Spring 2026 The people of Iran find themselves suspended in a ...

Acclaimed Iranian French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights and author of ...

Azar Nafisi's story of forming a covert book club for Iranian women made her a beloved literary figure, but the film adaptation struggles to rise above platitudes. The fleeting impulse to label a film ...

Some writers describe the world as it is. Shahrnush Parsipur spent her life imagining how it might be different.

Women in Iran are the second sex, not the first sex, and that has not changed. Iranian women still face the same problems ...