The feature film debut from Iranian-French director Mahsa Karampour about her and her brother, a former member of indie rock ...

Actress turned director Pegah Ahangarani used archive footage and home movies to explore 40-plus years of unrest in a country ...

Back in Cannes with Kieślowski-inspired "Parallel Tales," starring Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel, the two-time Oscar ...

Asghar Farhadi, director of the first Iranian film to win the Oscar for best foreign language movie, on Friday described as ...

Several decades of modern Iranian history are evoked and interrogated in Rehearsals For A Revolution, a searching documentary ...

Iranian director, actress and activist Pegah Ahangarani is in Cannes with documentary “Rehearsals for a Revolution,” which ...

Asghar Farhadi spoke about the conflict in his native Iran during the Cannes press conference for "Parallel Tales," saying: ...

These groundbreaking films by Iranian women directors explain the deep-rooted origins of the Iranian feminist movement.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Since 2012, only one country has won the Oscar for Best International Feature twice: Iran. The achievement is all the more remarkable for the stringent censorship that filmmakers in the Islamic ...

A Visual Testimony" features 16 staged images from pivotal incidents in Iran's modern history. Each photograph sheds light on ...