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

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

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for CPH:DOX title Grand Me

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for CPH:DOX title Grand Me

Atiye Zare Arand’s documentary follows a nine-year-old Iranian girl who plans to sue her parents after their bitter divorce  

15/03/2024 | CPH:DOX 2024

Review: My Stolen Planet

Review: My Stolen Planet

BERLINALE 2024: Resistance is both personal and political in Farahnaz Sharifi’s documentary, which uses archival footage to examine life in Iran from the revolution up to today  

24/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Review: Maydegol

Review: Maydegol

BERLINALE 2024: Iran's Sarvnaz Alambeigi delivers a bitter and moving documentary about a 19-year-old exiled Afghan girl, a thai boxing practitioner in a relentless and desperate quest for freedom  

18/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Generation

Review: My Favourite Cake

Review: My Favourite Cake

BERLINALE 2024: Directorial duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha craft a straightforward but heartfelt dramedy of love and resistance against patriarchy in old age  

17/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Farshad Hashemi • Director of Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

Interview: Farshad Hashemi • Director of Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others

“I can’t predict the future, but I know this is just the beginning”

The winner of Göteborg’s Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award plays with fact and fiction in his debut film, which sees a woman opening up her home to a film crew  

14/02/2024 | Göteborg 2024

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