"Hatred cannot be the path," says Amirali Navaee as he gets ready to world premiere his debut feature film at the Rotterdam ...

Rotterdam head calls for 'solidarity,' denounces 'oppression' after 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' star Soheila Golestani faced ...

Children’s experience and tense family drama have been at the heart of many of the greatest Iranian films. Ahead of the release of the Oscar-nominated thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig, we recommend ...

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

Mohammad Rasoulof had crossed the Iranian border on foot into exile before the Tehran authorities got wind of his covertly shot new film The Seed of the Sacred Fig. In this domestic conspiracy ...

Iranian filmmaker and actress Soheila Golestani, who was unveiled as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s ...

Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s Cutting Through Rocks follows Sara Shahverdi, a middle-aged divorcee in a remote and ...

The Seed of The Sacred Fig is a film but also an act of resistance. Filmed in secret in Tehran, it’s about a newly-promoted state investigating judge, whose family is torn apart by the protests ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof fled his country this year after secretly shooting a movie that has now been nominated for an Oscar. He told RFE/RL the film was inspired by a prison guard he spoke ...

Protest is much more than just a theme for the rising film industry in Iran. The authorities were also becoming aware of his highly contentious film and his sentence could have been extended by ...

Rotterdam Film Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic has spoken out against the travel ban preventing The Seed of the Sacred Fig actress Soheila Golestani from leaving Iran to serve on this year’s ...

Iranian filmmaker and actress Soheila Golestani, who was unveiled as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) Tiger Competition jury, has been barred from leaving Iran to ...