Human rights activists are being arrested at random and the smallest protests are being brutally suppressed, even if they ...
The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” an Oscar-nominated movie filmed in secret in Iran, highlights the Iranian film world’s ...
Well, it is, but stay with me. Matthew Rankin, a Manitoba-born, Montreal-based experimental filmmaker, so loves the Iranian New Wave movies of the 1970s and beyond — the films of Abbas ...
No reason is ever stated for the strange, deadpan fusion of Winnipeg reality and Iranian New Wave cinema. But there’s that title. If cinema is a universal language, it’s never been more ...
In a rare escalation, a group of armed men with nationalistic aspirations clashed with regime security forces in the ...