The London Iranian Film Festival (UKIFF) welcomes the work of internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi and his award winning film “The Song of Sparrows”, with a special screening in London, UK.

Enjoy an outdoor summer exhibition, along with the screening, celebrating the best of Iranian cinema at the Opera House in Holland Park.

As an accompaniment to the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, ybca.org will present Panahi’s two newest features, both of which are banned in Iran, in March, 2011.

They will be preceded by the eight-minute short The Accordion, his last finished film before his arrest, about two child beggars.

Iranian Film Festival 2011 at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries’ Meyer Auditorium in Washington, DC starts today and will run through Sunday, February 27, 2011. The Freer’s fifteenth annual festival presents several new Iranian films and a special documentary program. Cosponsored by the ILEX Foundation and curated by F|S Film Programmer Tom Vick and Carter Long [...]

London-based organization, UKIFF will be showcasing more than thirty movies made by or about Iran/Iranians, during its inaugural cinema appreciation festival beginning this week. The majority of the films have been made in the last few years, making it quite likely that you will run into at least a film or two that you have not [...]

Film festivals that honor Iranian films are held annually across the globe and now the time has finally arrived for an Iranian Film Festival to have a permanent home in the United Kingdom. UKIFF (a London-based charity and limited company) is delighted to announce the inaugural London Iranian Film Festival.

I hate Iranian music. Or so I thought. Last night, somewhere between the mandatory, polite applause that pre-empted the screening of  “No One Knows About Persian Cats” and the enthusiastic, deserved standing ovation that followed it, all of that changed. It wasn’t so much the first half of the sentence that became obsolete but the [...]