Yellow Letters and Emin Alper’s Salvation both won headline honours at the Berlin film festival and show dissenting cinema is thriving in the face of Erdoğan’s repression ...

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 ...

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

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.

Held alongside the UN Human Rights Council session, the festival brings together films and forums under the theme "Resisting Authoritarianism." ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - On the seventh day of US and Israeli strikes on Iranian military and security bases in the ...

On the assumption that Americans should understand who we’re bombing, here are five excellent Iranian films, all streaming ...

The third season of Gangs of London, the British crime thriller created by Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery, will premiere on Canal+ on March 26, 2026, at 9:09 PM. The series centers on the Wallace ...

As war reshapes Iran’s present, Outlook returns to its 2023 issue on the women-led uprising that challenged power, patriarchy and the politics of control.

Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah al-Khatib ruffled the feathers of the German elite with his passionate defence of the Palestinian cause ...