All Iran articles – Page 6
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NewsGolden Bear-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi sentenced to six years in prison
Filmmaker was arrested last week in Tehran.
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NewsJafar Panahi latest Iranian filmmaker to be arrested; Mohammad Rasoulof’s producer expands on his detention
Panahi was arrested today in Tehran, following Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad’s arrests on Friday.
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NewsArrest of Golden Bear -winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof prompts growing protests
Iranian authorities have arrested Mohammad Rasoulof and fellow filmmaker Mostafa Al-Ahmad over social media appeals.
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Reviews‘Summer With Hope’: Karlovy Vary Review
A swimming competition is the catalyst for Iranian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi’s well-observed Crystal Globe winner
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NewsWild Bunch International posts fresh deals on Cannes title ‘Holy Spider’ (exclusive)
Iran-set serial killer drama draws buyers worldwide following buzzy world premiere in Competition at Cannes.
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News‘Holy Spider’ director Ali Abbasi: “We didn’t do it as an activist work but it takes up the themes”
The Iran-born, Denmark-based director was talkinig about the issue of women’s rights in Iran.
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Reviews‘Leila’s Brothers’: Cannes Review
Excellent performances anchor this gripping family drama about gender and succession in Iran
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NewsInternational Coalition for Filmmakers At Risk “extremely disturbed” by arrest of Iranian directors
Mina Keshavarz and Firouzeh Khosrovani have been released on bail and issued with a travel ban.
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Reviews‘Imagine’: Cannes Review
A woman bonds with her taxi driver in night rides around Tehran in Ali Behrad’s atmospheric yet ephemeral meditation on love and longing
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NewsHanway Films board international sales on Noora Niasari’s ‘Shayda’
Holy Spider actress Zar Amir-Ebrahimi will star.
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Features‘Holy Spider’ producers on the huge challenges they faced bringing Ali Abbasi’s Cannes title to screen
The team faced years of Covid‑19 surges, shooting delays, location changes and government resistance.
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NewsBlue Fox snaps up ‘Orca’, talks ‘Jane’ release, financing platform (exclusive)
Taraneh Alidoosti’s drama centres on a domestic violence survivor who bids to become an endurance swim record-holder.
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NewsAsghar Farhadi discusses 'A Hero' plagiarism case at Cannes
”I think the matter will no doubt be cleared up and I’m sorry it has created so much ill feeling.”
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NewsCelluloid Dreams to launch Jafar Panahi’s new film ‘No Bears’ at Cannes (exclusive)
It is the Iranian director’s first film since road movie 3 Faces which won best screenplay in competition at Cannes in 2018.
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Reviews‘This Is Not Me’: Flare Review
A moving portrait of two young trans men embarking upon the difficult legal process of gender transition in Iran
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Reviews‘Until Tomorrow’: Berlin Review
A young single mother in Iran searches for a safe place for her baby for one night
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Reviews‘When Pomengranates Howl’: Tallinn Review
A nine-year-old boy dreams of stardom in this heartfelt Afghan drama
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NewsIran selects Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ as Oscar international feature entry
Farhadi has previously won the award twice.
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Reviews‘The Absent Director’: Busan Review
An audacious single-shot drama that follows an Iranian theater company staging an experimental ‘Macbeth’
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Reviews‘Asteroid’: Busan Review
Mehdi Hoseinivand Aalipour’s affectionate first film observes the tender bonds of one Iranian family