Qualifying for the 2025 Oscars, Amir Zargara’s short “A Good Day Will Come” is both heartbreaking and necessary. It’s inspired…
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As of late, we’ve seen a growing interest among filmmakers and artists to integrate video chats and Skype or Zoom…
Maziyar Khatam’s short film “Baba,” co-directed by Anya Chirkova and Meran Ismailsoy, begins with a tense situation: Two men who…
Films like “Enough” and “Sleeping with the Enemy,” though good-intentioned, cannot escape the curse of Hollywood-ization. We like to see…
Jafar Panahi’s “No Bears” (“Khers nist,” original title) is a daring multi-hyphenate, pivoting from cranky comedy-of-manners to docu-fiction to operatic…
During the Iran/Iraq war in the 1980s, Tehran and its people witnessed the bloodiest years in their entire history. Set…
For a film that begins with a divorce hearing, Asghar Farhadi’s 2011 Iranian film “A Separation” tries to show how far…