For decades, Persian-language movies have showcased Iranian culture and people. Today, the country’s great directors are ...

Decades of surveillance and assassinations have left Iran without a unified opposition ready to take power— even as foreign leaders urge an uprising.

No Other Land became the first film representing Palestine to win an Academy Award when it took the Oscar for Best ...

In the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Nowruz celebrations — honoring the arrival of spring — are a fundamental ...

The Newroz holiday comes at a critical time, as Kurds in Turkey push for peace while their brethren in Syria and Iran fear further conflict.

Kurds are returning to Syria’s Afrin district and celebrating the Nowruz spring festival openly for the first time in years ...

Kurdish filmmaker Rojhilat Aksoy is facing trial in Turkey on charges of "publicly insulting the Turkish nation and state institutions" after organizing a screening of the animated documentary film ...

Iranian Kurdish families living in a camp in Iraq hold on to one hope: that the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran weakens Iran’s theocracy.

In Iraq's northern Kurdistan region, women perform a traditional dance, their long dresses spinning, gold tassels and heavy necklaces catching the firelight, as smaller crowds than usual celebrate ...

Alireza Ghasemi's 'Rainy Dreams' combines live-action and animation to explore the dreams of displaced children waiting in ...

Dongnan Chen's "Whispers in May" won the main prize at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen's documentary film festival, on Friday. The award, known as the Dox:Award, comes with a cash prize of €10,000 ($11,555). In ...

Iranian filmmakers turned censorship into one of cinema’s most vital movements. War threatens to destroy what decades of repression couldn’t.