“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...

New Delhi: Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay established itself as an emotion in India, but it also became a much-loved film across the globe from Iran to Russia and even China. It’s the classic ‘curry Western’ ...

This meaningful film is written and directed by Narges Abyar. Drawing upon her experiences during the Iranian revolution, Abyar tells us the story of Bahar, a young girl who lives with her grandmother ...

This year’s 29th Annual Festival of Films from Iran doesn’t exactly have a theme. However, several films being screened do have a connection to the past — specifically, that time in Iranian history ...

Amirali Navaee’s new film, “Sunshine Express,” screening next at South by Southwest London, is a project more focused on hope than politics. By David Belcher For the Iranian writer and director ...

DUBAI – Iran has summoned France's representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film as “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression.