Iran’s Arsalan Amiri, who won two awards at Venice for his debut feature “Zalava,” is at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Project Market with “For the Girls of the Tribe.” Inspired by a real historical event that took place in 1905 in Iran, the film will tell the story of a group of peasants who rescue two …
Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has launched an impassioned appeal for production designer Leila Naghdipari to be released from jail following her recent arrest during demonstrations marking the one year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death. Naghdipari was one of hundreds of Iranians arrested on Sept. 16 during widespread protests marking the anniversary of Amini’s death …
Martyr Morteza Avini managed, through his creative and thought-provoking cinematic works, to establish a new method of cinema in line with the political vision of the Islamic Republic
Traditionally, poetry was Iran’s most valued cultural export. But, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the country has caught the imagination of the world with its cinema.