Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...

The young filmmaker had little access to cinema growing up in remote rural China, but thanks to a friend's cache of classics ...

Described by writer-director Matthew Rankin as a piece of "autobiographical hallucination," this wonderfully deadpan whatsit ...

Iranian auteur Alireza Khatami tackles toxic masculinity through horror tension and psychological unease in Sundance thriller 'The Things You Kill.' ...

But that's precisely the sort of bait-and-switch Iranian writer/director Alireza Khatami is operating on here, until his tense and nightmarish film starts to resemble more something like David Lynch's ...

This time of year, we find ourselves in a lame-duck period on the movie calendar, with much of Hollywood’s energy directed ...

His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.

When my first film came out, someone wrote, “It’s like Kiarostami took ecstasy.” And then someone who saw this film during post-production told me, “This is David Lynch if he was ever ...