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63 articles available in total starting from 10/02/2010. Last article published on 23/05/2025.

Review: Woman and Child

Review: Woman and Child

CANNES 2025: Saeed Roustaee weaves a highly sophisticated narrative and visual constellation around a grieving woman who decides to stop compromising  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: It Was Just an Accident

Review: It Was Just an Accident

CANNES 2025: A gripping tale of revenge and reckoning, Jafar Panahi’s latest drama lays bare the vicious cycle of violence under repression  

21/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

Review: The Vanishing Point

Review: The Vanishing Point

Iranian director Bani Khoshnoudi tries to give life to the ghost of a family’s past that now only lives through the few objects that inhabited it  

15/04 | Visions du Réel 2025

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident to world-premiere in Cannes’ competition

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident to world-premiere in Cannes’ competition

The Iranian master returns to the Croisette with a tightly guarded mystery film co-produced by France and Luxembourg, and sold by mk2  

14/04 | Production | Funding | Iran/France/Luxembourg

Shahab Fotouhi • Director of Boomerang

Interview: Shahab Fotouhi • Director of Boomerang

"The confrontation between two generations helps us to understand each of them more"

VENICE 2024: The Iranian artist talks about his vibrant portrait of modern-day Tehran that compares and contrasts two generations, amidst political turmoil and scenes of day-to-day life  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Boomerang

Review: Boomerang

VENICE 2024: The debut feature by Iranian artist Shahab Fotouhi is a fascinating snapshot of modern Tehran with strong and free female protagonists  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Interview: Mohammad Rasoulof • Director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig

“My collaborators are the victims of a slow form of torture”

The Iranian director fills us in on the background to his Cannes-awarded film as well as on the current political situation in Iran  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Piazza Grande

Review: A Sisters’ Tale

Review: A Sisters’ Tale

Iranian director Leila Amini films her sister, an aspiring singer, across seven years, in a country where public singing by women is banned  

09/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Semaine de la Critique

Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

CANNES 2024: Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof helms a remarkable political film about the feminist revolution in his country through the carefully scripted misadventures of a small family  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

Review: Grand Me

Review: Grand Me

Iranian director Atiye Zare Arandi trains her camera on her nine-year-old niece, who wants to choose her own custodian after her parents’ messy divorce  

22/03/2024 | CPH:DOX 2024

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