Filmed in secret, Jeff Kaufman’s portrait of the Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh captures her ongoing battles for the rights of women, children and minorities.
You don’t have to be a film critic to see how much Iranian-American actor Navid Negahban loves his craft. After his first play at the...
Made in America with an eye for export to Iran, Kourosh Ahari’s impressive feature debut terrorizes a couple staying at L.A.’s Hotel Normandie.
Maryam Mirzakhani, Fields medallist and Iranian national hero, is celebrated in an elegant documentary. http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/
Iranian filmmaker Khosrow Sinai passed away in August from COVID-19, leaving behind an important and eye-opening document of Polish exodus during the Second World War. His documentary The Lost Requiem...
On 24 June, Haaretz ran the exuberant headline: “New Israeli Spy Thriller ‘Tehran’ Is Even Better Than ‘Fauda’” – the wildly popular Netflix show that gets off on Palestinian suffering...
The U.S. and Iran have had contentious relations ever since the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s overthrowing the shah, and the subsequent hostage crisis — in which militants held...
The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is widely regarded as one of the great modern filmmakers, but if you discovered him at a particular peak of his international recognition — when he shared...
Comedy helps ease tense conversations, and whether he is on stage or on screen, opposite Rita Wilson, Iranian American artist Maz Jobrani always finds a way to use humor to...
There are a lot of plastic surgery reality shows out there but there’s a good chance that the latest, Netflix’s Skin Decision, will probably be your next obsession. The show...
‘Fauda’ scribe Moshe Zander’s personal and geopolitical series about Israel’s shadow war with Iran stars ‘Homeland’ alum Shaun Toub and Navid Negahban and Niv Sultan. The world hardly needs more...
There was the time that Iran pursued a secret nuclear-weapons program with North Korea and possibly facilitated the killing of dozens of people at CIA headquarters. There was the 1979...
Kiarostami’s accomplishments are all the more remarkable when the viewer considers how simple his films appear to be.
Taghi Amirani’s deeply researched documentary focuses on the crucial 1953 Anglo-American-engineered regime change in Iran.
Yara Shahidi, the talented 19-year-old actress/activist born to Iranian and African-American parents, a detail in which she has never been shy expressing, thinks being mixed...
With a flourishing film career both here and in France, the Iranian-born actress (and April Vogue cover star) Golshifteh Farahani, 35, is often on the move.
As we begin the Persian New Year, I am so excited to bring you this interview with one of my all-time favorite women – Shohreh...
The first Iranian-American woman to win an Oscar, Rayka Zehtabchi, says she wants to build on Sunday’s triumph of her documentary about menstruation by producing...
‘Period. End of Sentence.’ is nominated for Best Documentary – Short Subject and was directed by a woman: Rayka Zehtabchi, a 25-year-old Iranian-American director.
The star of ‘Counterpart’ and ‘Hotel Mumbai’ on representing Middle Eastern women on- and offscreen.
Writing and directing a suspense thriller that explores complex family dynamics is not an easy undertaking. Imagine doing it in a foreign language and country.
The Iranian cinema has already won a world-class reputation. Now, it's getting a wider American audience at the first Iranian Film Festival being held in...
The year was 1976. Sohrab Shahid Sales released, Reifezeit (Coming of age), a film about ‘the everyday life of a boy living with his prostitute...
Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan’s six-episode series “The Bisexual” debuted on Hulu in November with surprisingly little to no fanfare.
In recent news, Hollywood is acting upset at the decision to pull US troops from Syria. Perhaps, instead of US troops, Hollywood should send Chuck...
Desiree Akhavan’s nuanced show about a lesbian who comes out as bi explores how we all can become our true selves through sex. “Sex is complicated,” Leila, the Iranian-American hero of...
Iranian actor Vahid Rad used a photocall for his latest movie “As I Lay Dying” at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on Thursday to...