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.

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 [...]

The 3rd Annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco, a showcase for the independent feature and short films made by and about the Iranians from around the world, is inviting filmmakers from all over the world to submit their films to the next edition taking place September 18-19, 2010.

Presented in conjunction with Falnama: The Book of Omens, the 2010 Iranian Film Festival begins on January 8th at Washington, DC’s Freer and Sackler Galleries. Amongst the five new films are: “A Man Who Ate His Cherries” by Payman Haghani, “Shirin” by Abbas Kiarostami, “Two-Legged Horse” by Samira Makhmalbaf, and “Heiran” by Shalizeh Arefpour; in addition to [...]

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 [...]