Iranian filmmaker

By AFP TEHRAN: One of Iran's most prominent film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death on Saturday evening alongside his wife at their home near Tehran. A provincial chief justice said Mehrjui and his wife,…

By AFP TEHRAN: Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, jailed half a year ago over protests related to a building collapse, has been released for two weeks because of health concerns, his lawyer said…

Fearlessness is a quality Mahnaz Mohammadi is often associated with. But the Iranian filmmaker and women’s rights activist, recipient of the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala’s (IFFK) Spirit of Cinema Award, says her first exposure…

By AFP TEHRAN: Award-winning dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, arrested last week in Tehran, must serve a six-year sentence previously handed to him in 2010, the judicial authority announced Tuesday.…

Express News Service Should a man be accorded celebrity status for a basic act of courtesy? Should he be cancelled for his minor miscalculations of the past when this present good deed has the potential to redeem him?…