Cinema

The Guardian – The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo speaks of ‘trauma and paranoia’ over the extreme lengths some are taking to stop him from telling the truth. On 4 March, the […]

Variety – Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated film “Loveless” opens in the U.S. on Friday via Sony Pictures Classics. Alexander Rodnyansky, the film’s producer, speaks to Variety about its reception at home in Russia and abroad, and his views on recent developments […]

DW – From initiatives such as “Nobody’s Doll” and #BlackCarpetBerlinale to Kim Ki-duk’s controversial invitation, here’s how the debate on #MeToo has been fueled even before the Berlin film festival kicked off. The Berlinale has long […]

How does human fragility express itself in a rigid social system? Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi′s “The Salesman” reveals the precariousness of urban middle-class life in the Islamic Republic. By Jasmin Astaki-Bardeh As the cinema audience […]

One thing is certain: there is so much more to Tehran and Iran than taboos. Young Iranians find fulfilment these days not merely in the breaking of taboos, as “Tehran Taboo” suggests.

       Glacial comedy … Happy End. Photograph: Films Du Losange The Guardian – It hardly needs saying that the adjective in the title is about as accurate as the one in Haneke’s Funny Games. Happy […]

IDH is proud to announce its support for the premiere of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s latest film, Taxi Téhéran, on 14 April in Paris at the MK2 Quai de Seine cinema, in partnership with Memento Films.