The natural and formalistic collide in 'Cutting Through Rocks,' a Sundance documentary about the first councilwoman in an Iranian village.

The report came about a month after the UN human rights chief said Iran had executed 901 prisoners in 2024. Volker Turk said ...

Jennifer Rutland said family members had warned the British couple not to visit Iran because they knew it was ‘dangerous’.

Iranian directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghadam have appealed for support after they received a court summons and ...

Mehrnoush Alia's feature debut, world premiering in Berlin's Panorama section, was shot without a permit in Iran: "This issue ...

“We are the only country with more female players than male ice hockey players,” says Sedghi, the president of Iran’s ice hockey association. Iran may seem an unlikely setting for women’s ...

Iran’s top judicial authority has pardoned two journalists who uncovered the death of a young woman in police custody, the judiciary’s news outlet, Mizan, said Tuesday. The case triggered ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi ... Jafar Panahi, an Iranian film director, and Esmail Bakhshi, an Iranian activist, joined in voicing their serious ...

Making and promoting The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a remarkable act of bravery from director Mohammad Rasoulof, his cast and crew.

Directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni bring a measured hand to “Cutting Through Rocks,” their debut documentary about the first councilwoman in a rural Iranian village. The film’s ...

Filming started two weeks before the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protest movement in Iran in 2022 sparked by the arrest of a ...