From the 50th anniversary of the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festiva to Belmont World Film's Family Festival, WBUR film critic Erin Trahan rounds up the film events to check out this season.

Jackie Shroff also stars in the Kalees-directed remake of Atlee's 2016 Tamil hit 'Theri,' about a police officer who has ...

Mizna will bring rare films as well as work by heralded directors like Abbas Kiarostami and Dariush Mehrjui to Minnesota ...

Israeli TV dramas excel in quality over the past week.

An Italian war correspondent was arrested in Iran and has been held at an infamous Tehran prison for more than a week, Italian officials said. Cecilia Sala, 29, was arrested on Dec. 19 ...

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If the powerhouse Iranian drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” dramatizes the cruel ironies of existence in a theocratic state, the film’s writer-director, Mohammad Rasoulof, is living them.

Seed of the Sacred Fig” director Mohammad Rasoulof was forced to flee Iran after secretly filming this political thriller, which Germany submitted to the Oscars.

Despite censorship, depleted funding, and antagonism from both western and local film markets, there have been several ...

Tehran’s city council on Tuesday approved renaming a street in the Iranian capital after the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the official IRNA news agency reported. The former Bistoon Street ...

An Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi focuses on a young boy Mohammed who is blind and heads to his rural home for vacation. Unfortunately, he longs for his father's love and acceptance. The story ...

Tehran, Iran – For decades, authorities in Iran have been meticulously building an “axis of resistance” of like-minded factions to oppose Israel and the United States across the region.