Maryam Tafakory illustrates how Iranian filmmakers get around the Islamic taboo on touch. Interweaving her commentary with film clips from 1989 to 2018, she highlights how bags have long been a ...

The 40th Haifa International Film Festival opens October 15 with 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' by Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof. A SCENE from the Iranian film ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig.’ ...

Even with her head scarf carefully in place, the popular Iranian actress Vishka Asayesh would be repeatedly recognized by fans on the streets of Tehran. Visiting the Toronto International Film ...

In this arts24 episode, we talk to fugitive director Mohammad Rasoulof about his powerful Iranian film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, a brazen and startling picture about the misogyny and ...

This year’s festival edition is dedicated to the memory of Dariush Mehrjui, the master of Iranian New Wave cinema, and his wife Vahideh Mohammadifar. In the Classic Films section, seven milestones of ...

So for now at least, let us do that. The film is Iranian and co-directed by Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha. Moghaddam is an actor too. (Her roles include the terse 2013 drama Closed Curtain ...

Euronews Culture delves into two Iranian films that start their theatrical rollouts in Europe and which dare to expose and defy the crimes of the Islamic State in Iran. The first is My Favourite ...

Israeli authorities indicted a Jewish Israeli man for being recruited by Iran to pursue an assassination plot against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials. Moti Maman ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rise and Shine World Sales has acquired sales rights to the documentary A Sisters’ Tale ahead of its international premiere Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Director Mohammad Rasoulof had escaped a prison sentence in Iran just days before his latest film screened at the Cannes Film Festival this year. "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" went on to stun ...

A Harris campaign official told ABC News that “the materials were not used.” Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign said on Thursday that it did not use any materials that the FBI said Iranian ...