These two female filmmakers express the injustice they've experienced in their home countries in contrasting genres: a ...

Her film Roya tells the story of a fictional teacher detained in Evin, but it is also deeply personal for Mohammadi, who has been arrested multiple times in Iran on charges of propaganda.

Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's ...

Her second fiction feature, starring Turkish actress Melisa Sözen, premieres in the Berlinale's Panorama section: "I didn't ...

Dissident director Mahnaz Mohammadi on depicting Iran’s Evin Prison, where she spent time behind bars, in Berlin Film 'Roya.' ...

As a child born in a working-class neighborhood in south Tehran, future director Jafar Panahi would save all the pocket change his father gave him so he could go to the movies. Yet it was a role in ...

There's a strong possibility that Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi may get his first Oscar for his latest movie, "It Was Just An Accident." There's also a strong possibility he won't accept the honor ...

Melisa Sözen stars as a teacher imprisoned for her beliefs who faces a big choice in Mahnaz Mohammadi's new fiction feature, debuting in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.

Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian, co-writer of an Oscar-nominated film, was arrested in Tehran after signing a statement ...