Headlines out of Iran often focus on economic and political strife, and earlier this year the country’s war with Israel. But ...

The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association has stepped-up calls for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reappraise its relationship with Iran’s government-controlled Farabi cinema ...

His most recent movie, the Palme d'Or-winning 'It Was Just an Accident,' is only the latest of a 30-year career that's thrown the filmmaker obstacles at every turn.

What happens when the pressure to compete is not just about winning, but about survival? In the new political thriller Tatami, that question plays out through the story of Leila Hosseini, an Iranian ...

Director Jafar Panahi spoke with NBC News about how his time in prison shaped his new film, which debuted in limited release ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, long persecuted for his unflinching portrayals of life under repression, returns with It Was Just an Accident, a gripping moral thriller born from his own time in Evin ...

That is but one of the moral questions raised in Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s hard-hitting, sometimes funny and ...

A serious, often surprisingly comic, search for truth in contemporary Tehran, “Accident” begins as a man accidentally encounters the torturer who destroyed his health and continues to haunt ...

In the first feature film co-directed by an Israeli and an Iranian, Tatami, an Iranian judoka must choose between her country and a run for the gold at the World Judo Championships. In the new ...