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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

As part of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation’s mission to aid in the advancement of talented women filmmakers, the foundation has teamed with the Tribeca Film Institute to form the TFI Adrienne Shelly Foundation Screenwriting Fellowship.