Making and promoting The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a remarkable act of bravery from director Mohammad Rasoulof, his cast and crew.

If Mohammad Rasoulof was to make just one film worth having to flee Iran for, this gripping family thriller would be it ...

Filming started two weeks before the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protest movement in Iran in 2022 sparked by the arrest of a ...

"Hatred cannot be the path," says Amirali Navaee as he gets ready to world premiere his debut feature film at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

A romantic drama about an elderly couple who share a night together to escape their loneliness has landed its Iranian ...

Iman will soon seek to assert control of his private patriarchy. The story has the air of fable, but plays bold games with convention. A gun appears early, before a dark, droll twist on the usual ...

LONDON—UK Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoons shot down three Iranian one-way attack drones as part of the aerial ...

Navaee, born in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war, which has shaped his artistic vision, talked to THR‘s Georg Szalai about how the film is a commentary on today’s world, beyond Iran, why humans ...

International Oscar film nominees reflect common threads and political turmoil, dealing with deep-rooted issues in their ...

Sacred Fig is the type of work that is monumental simply for existing — but it’s also a gripping political thriller that is ...

"They want us to stop the release of the film in different countries," Sanaeeha told AFP by videocall from the Iranian capital. "When a film goes to a festival or starts a new release in a new ...