Iran has sentenced acclaimed 'It Was Just an Accident' director Jafar Panahi to five years in prison. Charges remain unclear.

Charges against him are unclear after return to Iran despite being sentenced last year for ‘propaganda activities’ ...

Tehran has begun seizing the assets of an acclaimed Iranian film director after a court sentenced him to more than five years in prison.

Acclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to another lengthy prison term, according to a media report. A Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced the 66-year-old filmmaker to ...

In the unnerving docu "Third Land," director and Iranian émigré Farzad Khoshdast chronicles the permanent limbo of a family ...

Vienna, IRNA – Iran’s cinema took the spotlight in Rome as 10 feature, short, and documentary films were screened for audiences during a three-day program attended by filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts ...

Director Asghar Farhadi slammed Ben Affleck's "Argo" at the Rio Film Festival, calling it a "Hollywood thing" that portrays Iran "like you're in hell." ...

The latest sentence was handed down in absentia, according to Panahi’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, who spoke to Iranian reformist media outlet Emtedad.

Iranian director Ali Asgari’s contemporary Tehran-set drama A Bit Of Light premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Friday evening as the penultimate competition screening. The raw, timely drama was ...

EXCLUSIVE: DreamLab Films has boarded sales on satirical Iranian picture Head to Head (Sar beh Sar) about a film production in which the male cast members are subjected to the strict dress rules ...

Iranian director Mohsen Gharaei, who is at the Venice Film Festival with well-received drama “Falling House,” is set to shoot a new film titled “Centrifugal Force” that will capture “the impossible ...