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 ...
His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the spoken tongue.
Iranian auteur Alireza Khatami tackles toxic masculinity through horror tension and psychological unease in Sundance thriller 'The Things You Kill.' ...
Described by writer-director Matthew Rankin as a piece of "autobiographical hallucination," this wonderfully deadpan whatsit ...
MK2 Films, the Paris-based indie powerhouse behind “Anatomy of a Fall,” has tapped former Kinology executive Emmanuel Pisarra ...
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 ...
Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and ...
A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.