Headlines out of Iran often focus on economic and political strife, and earlier this year the country’s war with Israel. But ...

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, long persecuted for his unflinching portrayals of life under repression, returns with It Was Just an Accident, a gripping moral thriller born from his own time in Evin ...

The intense mutual admiration of Martin Scorsese and Jafar Panahi was evident today as the American and Iranian directors embraced at length. Panahi bowed to “a god of cinema.” Scorsese challenged ...