It Was Just an Accident ( now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is more than just a film – it’s a righteous act of defiance. But that’s par for the course for director Jafar Panahi, ...

Dried-up lakes, recurrent water cuts and undrinkable water: residents of the Iranian capital Tehran are suffering the consequences of an unprecedented drought. For this report, they agreed to film ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official and a private maritime risk group said, ...

“I didn’t have the opportunity to work with any companies or studios in Tehran,” Etminan explained. While most editors rely on cloud-based software, he couldn’t. Instead, he worked on an old MacBook ...

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi refuses to be silenced. Having been imprisoned twice by the Iranian government, Panahi was last released in 2023 and continues to resist censorship through his art. His latest ...

Shadi Rouhshahbaz was a Women Peacemaker Fellow at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, the University of San Diego (2023-2024). She received funding from this fellowship to conduct research on ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi puts a lot on the line for his work. Authorities could again arrest him for speaking out against the country’s hard-line regime. They could send him back to the ...

Iran's greatest living director is free. Jafar Panahi is out of prison, the ban against him making movies has been rescinded and he's now trotting the globe with arguably his greatest work, "It Was ...

Since its brief June war with Israel, Iran has throttled internet traffic and jammed GPS, making day-to-day tasks online a struggle and prompting Iranians’ fears of greater surveillance. Since its ...

The intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors embraced at length. Panahi bowed to “a god of cinema.” Scorsese challenged ...