Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...

This year, for the second time in succession, a woman, brilliant French actress Juliette Binoche, would head the prestigious ...

It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto ...

His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.

When 22-year-old Georgian filmmaker Tiku Kobiashvili took to the streets of Tbilisi in 2024, she did not yet know that ...

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

This time of year, we find ourselves in a lame-duck period on the movie calendar, with much of Hollywood’s energy directed ...

One of Canada's most idiosyncratic fantasists discusses the links between Iranian cinema, architecture, and cultural exchange.

And at that point, I thought it would be very interesting to make a film about a family like his, with this profound rift at ...

Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and ...

Sky News host Rita Panahi discusses the “anthem furore” at this year’s Super Bowl. Ms Panahi criticised singer and ...