The Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association (IIFMA) was back at the Berlinale this year with a stand, flashmob and a ...

Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's ...

Her film Roya tells the story of a fictional teacher detained in Evin, but it is also deeply personal for Mohammadi, who has been arrested multiple times in Iran on charges of propaganda.

By Miranda Murray and Hanna Rantala BERLIN, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Iranian director Jafar Panahi had told the Berlin Film ...

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi - known internationally for works such as "Women Without Shadows,” “Travelogue" ...

With protests raging and artists detained, Iranian filmmakers at the Berlinale say global festivals are one of their few remaining outlets to tell the truth - and to be heard.

In Iran's 2022 protests, security forces deliberately targeted women's faces, especially their eyes, intending to blind them. This brutal tactic was used to silence and intimidate women leading the ...

Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of an Oscar-nominated film, was arrested in Tehran after signing a statement ...

Her second fiction feature, starring Turkish actress Melisa Sözen, premieres in the Berlinale's Panorama section: "I didn't ...

These two female filmmakers express the injustice they've experienced in their home countries in contrasting genres: a ...

The Brigade, which counts some 750 filmmakers, agents, managers, publicists, executives and actors, is taking a not-so-subtle ...