The 25th annual Washington, DC International Film Festival (Filmfest DC) runs from April 7th, 2011 through April 17th, 2011, and once again brings the best of new international cinema to the nation’s capital including World Premieres, DC Premieres, Official Foreign Language Film Oscar® Selections and international headliners and award winners.

His work is brave (as his first name, Shoja, suggests, in Persian), cleverly inquisitive, and unaffected. And yet, these aren’t the only reasons why we find ourselves seduced by Shoja Azari’s très originale aesthetic.

Starring 32 of actor and director Modiri’s past accomplices (and friends like, Siamak Ansari) the show takes place in “today’s world.”

The widely-popular Ghahve Talkh (Persian: Bitter Coffee) TV show–which begins its 5th season in about three days–starts its storyline with Ansari’s character drinking a bitter cup of coffee which sends him back in time, via his thoughts.

Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, this first feature film by acclaimed visual artist Shirin Neshat explores the lives of four women during the traumatic era in early fifties Iran. Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran’s 1953 CIA-backed coup d’état, the destinies of four women converge in [...]

Ana Lily Amirpour is working on her next project, a short film called KETAB, about a lonely young guy in Tehran who goes to buy a book.  On the surface it appears to be a very basic story, but as it unfolds, a more intricate world is revealed, one that touches on the current dichotomies [...]

The Freedom to Create Prize is pleased to announce that renowned human rights advocate Bianca Jagger will present the main award at its prize ceremony on Wednesday 25 November 2009 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Two Iranian creative and intellectual minds are amongst 1,015 artists from 110 countries who entered the lineup to receive the [...]