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The ongoing Israeli mass murder in Gaza and stepped up brutality and repression on the West Bank provide immediate, living context, if such be needed, for Farah Nabulsi’s film.

A debut feature from an Iranian director took out the Feature Fiction Award, while the Documentary Award went to an Egyptian journalist turned filmmaker.

Iranian-made drama 'Empty Nets' catches the top feature prize at the Adelaide Film Festival.

China's Pingyao film festival presented its top awards to Wei Shujun's Only The River Flows and Pham Thien An's Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell.

Iranian Independent Filmmaker Assn Warns Academy Against Iran’s Int’l Picture Oscar Entry; Calls On Org To Consider Alternative Non-Regime Submission

10/07/2023 - Among the winners of the festival's 57th edition are also Behrooz Karamizade's German-Iranian co-production Empty Nets and Ernst De Geer's Nordic title The Hypnosis

Bulgarian film Blaga’s Lessons wins main prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

There are a growing number of compelling, young Iranian filmmakers that are reinvigorating and rethinking Iranian cinema. It's exactly what Iranian cinema needs now, and I'm glad they're making such interesting films. They're also films that I'm happy to talk about and recommend, which is vital to their success outside of film festivals. One of

07/07/2023 - The German-Iranian director breaks down the masculine world of fishing, the prospects for the young generation of Iranians and his relationship with the sea

04/07/2023 - Behrooz Karamizade's debut feature shows how even the most ordinary Iranian citizens are only ever just a few strokes of bad luck and desperate decisions away from losing everything