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64 articles available in total starting from 10/02/2010. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

Review: Radiograph of a Family

Review: Radiograph of a Family

Firouzeh Khosrovani wins the IDFA Award for the Best Feature-length Documentary with a superb personal essay about our divided world  

27/11/2020 | IDFA 2020

The Czech Republic and Slovakia co-producing Iranian mystery-thriller Absence

The Czech Republic and Slovakia co-producing Iranian mystery-thriller Absence

The third feature by Ali Mosaffa will probe the hidden corners where the histories of Iran and the former Czechoslovakia intersect  

22/07/2020 | Production | Funding | Iran/Czech Republic/Slovakia

Review: The Marriage Project

Review: The Marriage Project

Iranian filmmakers Atieh Attarzadeh and Hesam Eslami deliver a touching and rather bright documentary with a melancholy undertone, set in a Tehran psychiatric hospital  

26/05/2020 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2020

Review: There Is No Evil

Review: There Is No Evil

BERLINALE 2020: Mohammad Rasoulof makes a powerful point in his not-so-short film about killing  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Competition

Massoud Bakhshi  • Director of Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

Interview: Massoud Bakhshi • Director of Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

"The world is torn between a rich minority that wants everything, and a majority that has nothing"

Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi discusses Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness, a majority European production recognised in Sundance and on its way to the Berlinale  

10/02/2020 | Sundance 2020 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

Review: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

In his second feature, a largely European majority production, Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi creates a redoubtable and thrilling TV procedural with a female touch  

27/01/2020 | Sundance 2020 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness to compete at Sundance

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness to compete at Sundance

The film by Iran’s Massoud Bakhshi, a French majority production staged by JBA and sold by Pyramide, will have its international premiere at Park City as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition  

06/12/2019 | Production | Funding | France /Germany /Luxembourg /Switzerland /Iran /Lebanon

Review: Sunless Shadows

Review: Sunless Shadows

Mehrdad Oskouei’s feature-length documentary set in a juvenile detention centre in Iran has opened the 32nd edition of IDFA  

21/11/2019 | IDFA 2019

Samereh Rezaie  • Actress and director of I'm a Happy Actress

Interview: Samereh Rezaie • Actress and director of I'm a Happy Actress

“Many Afghani refugees coming to Europe are actually born and raised in Iran”

We chatted to Afghani filmmaker Samereh Rezaie at the Fajr International Film Festival about being an Afghani woman filmmaker living in Iran and why many refugees are coming to Europe  

05/06/2019 | Fajr 2019

A Russian Youth comes out on top at the 37th Fajr International Film Festival

A Russian Youth comes out on top at the 37th Fajr International Film Festival

Wackersdorf, Irina and Before the Frost were also among the winners of the emblematic Iranian international film event, which has managed to withstand harsh financial sanctions  

26/04/2019 | Fajr 2019 | Awards

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