EXCLUSIVE: Iranian American writer-director Michael Younesi has wrapped production on Loose Ends, an indie dark comedy produced by Zero Gravity Management (The Accountant 2, Ozark) and LB ...

3 Faces, directed by Jafar Panahi (all images courtesy of Kino Lorber) In the eighth year of his two-decade government-imposed filmmaking ban, the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi made Se Rokh (3 Faces) ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government ...

CAIRO (AP) — Iranian authorities arrested one of the country’s most renowned actresses Saturday on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests that grip the country, state media said.

"In the era of social networks, making films has become very difficult," said renowned Iranian actress and director Niki ...

He works in mysterious ways.

An Iranian actress will not attend the Academy Awards in protest of President Donald Trump's draft executive order that would suspend issuing visas for people from some Middle Eastern and African ...

An Iranian actress was sentenced to one year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a banned film that is critical of the Islamic Republic’s arts policies, according to an opposition website. Marzieh ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports. Vafamehr had been ...

Amnesty International's campaigns manager Hannah Harborow told Adelaide Now: "We are extremely pleased to hear that Marzieh has been released without being subjected to the cruel and degrading ...