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68 articles available in total starting from 10/02/2010. Last article published on 12/08/2025.

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Jafar Panahi • Director of It Was Just an Accident

Interview: Jafar Panahi • Director of It Was Just an Accident

“I wanted to show young directors that it’s impossible to stop a filmmaker”

At Cinehill, where he was presented with the Maverick Award, the Iranian filmmaker broke down his reflection on trauma and violence, and the fragile hope of banishing them  

12/08 | /France/Luxembourg/Iran

Review: Cutting Through Rocks

Review: Cutting Through Rocks

Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s hard-hitting doc follows the first elected councilwoman in a rural Iranian village, as she attempts to dismantle deeply rooted patriarchal structures  

29/07 | Giffoni 2025

Gözde Kural • Director of Cinema Jazireh

Interview: Gözde Kural • Director of Cinema Jazireh

“I didn’t want one story, but rather a small world of memory and resilience”

The Turkish director unveils the challenges of filming her second feature in Afghanistan and speaks out about the oppression faced by both genders under the Taliban  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Review: Cinema Jazireh

Review: Cinema Jazireh

In her second feature, Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural pairs an unrelentingly bleak story with a sensitive observational approach  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Saeed Roustaee • Director of Woman and Child

Interview: Saeed Roustaee • Director of Woman and Child

"People haven't yet learned to be honest"

CANNES 2025: The Iranian filmmaker deciphers his multi-faceted film centred on a broken woman who opens her eyes, picks herself up and becomes a driving force for change  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Competition

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

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