Headlines out of Iran often focus on economic and political strife, and earlier this year the country’s war with Israel. But ...

That is but one of the moral questions raised in Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s hard-hitting, sometimes funny and ...

His most recent movie, the Palme d'Or-winning 'It Was Just an Accident,' is only the latest of a 30-year career that's thrown the filmmaker obstacles at every turn.

Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Mokhtari will serve as the president of the international jury of the 4th New Persian Images Festival, where a number of films from Iran will be screened.

From poetic masterpieces to defiant acts of resistance, Iranian cinema has given the world some of its most profound ...