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

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

This year, for the second time in succession, a woman, brilliant French actress Juliette Binoche, would head the prestigious main competition jury. She will succeed American director Greta Gerwig, who ...

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 ...

You’ll be scratching your head throughout “Universal Language,” that is, when you’re not howling. I am at a loss to explain ...

Berlinale – that’s 75 years full of stories, minor and major scandals, unforgettable moments and, above all, a long and ...

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 ...