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All Iran articles – Page 9
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NewsEFA, Berlinale demand immediate release of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
Nasrin Sotoudeh is known in cinema circles for her work with Jafar Panahi and appearing as one of the passengers in Taxi Tehran.
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NewsPluto Film boards sales on TIFF Discovery title ‘180° Rule’ (exclusive)
Tehran-set drama is first film in a planned trilogy revolving around the theme of secrets and lies.
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Reviews‘Sun Children’: Venice Review
A Dickensian tale with a Disney feel set in Iran’s bustling metropolis
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NewsRodd Rathjen signs to direct iff project ‘No Friend But The Mountains’ (exclusive)
Story based on experiences of Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani on Australia’s notorious Manus Island asylum seeker camp.
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NewsCelluloid Dreams boards Venice competition title ‘Sun Children’
The sales outfit previously represented Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s feature debut ‘Baduk’.
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NewsRepublic acquires Iranian refugee doc ‘Love Child’ for UK & Ireland (exclusive)
Has played festival circuit at Toronto, IDFA, CPH:DOX.
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Reviews‘The Art Of Living In Danger’: Sheffield Doc/Fest Review
A look inside the struggle against domestic violence in Iran
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Reviews‘The Marriage Project’: Thessaloniki Review
A bold social experiment inside a mental institution has mixed results in this slim documentary from Iran
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News‘Between Two Dawns’, ‘Grace’ clinch top awards at Turkey’s Meetings on the Bridge
15th edition took place online due to Covid-19 pandemic.
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FeaturesMy Working From Home Life: Lebanese producer Georges Schoucair
“We finished the shoot for Ely Dagher’s Harvest just as the first case of Covid-19 was reported in Lebanon.”
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NewsCannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam, EFA and IDFA protest “imminent incarceration” of Mohammad Rasoulof
Iranian filmmaker was summoned to serve one-year prison sentence just days after winning Berlinale’s Golden Bear for There Is No Evil
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NewsBerlin winner Mohammad Rasoulof summoned to prison in Iran
wRasoulof was unable to travel to Berlin because of a travel ban.
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Reviews‘There Is No Evil’: Berlin Review
From Iran, director Mohammad Rasoulof orchestrates a cautionary tale in four chapters
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NewsEmbattled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof: “The system I am confronted with is so irrational”
Rasoulof will not be able to attend the world premiere of his new film There Is No Evil in Berlin.
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NewsFilms Boutique boards Mohammad Rasoulof’s Berlin competition title ‘There Is No Evil’ (exclusive)
It’s unclear if the Iranian auteur will be allowed to attend the film’s premiere.
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FeaturesIran’s Massoud Bakhshi talks Sundance drama ‘Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness’
Blacklisted in Iran, the director talks about the challenges of making his second feature.
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Reviews‘Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness’: Sundance Review
Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi focuses on one woman to highlight wider issues within a patriarchal society
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NewsProducers of Iranian Sundance title ‘Yalda’ issue statement denying withdrawal claims
Director will not attend festival due to flare-up in tensions between US and Iran.
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NewsIranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf criticises “shameful” UK government over passport row
The wife and daughter of the London-based filmmaker have been denied passports.
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NewsIDFA gets off to a powerful start with Mehrdad Oskouei’s ‘Sunless Shadows’
Artistic director Orwa Nyrabia talks female representation, Edward Snowden event, the future of the EDN and Saudi Arabia.