EXCLUSIVE: Sahraa Karimi’s debut feature Hava, Maryam, Ayesha is screening in the Horizons section here at the Venice Film Festival next week. This is the first independent Afghan movie entirely shot ...

The Blue Caftan by Moroccan director and Cannes 2023 Jury member Maryam Touzani has topped the nominations in the seventh edition of the Critics Awards for Arab Films. The portrait of marriage and ...

Some 30 film organizations, festivals and professionals as well as freedom of speech NGOs have signed an open letter calling on Iranian authorities to immediately drop all charges against directors ...

Iranian artist and filmmaker Maryam Tafakory has won the 2024 Jarman Award. Tafakory was handed the award - which comes with a £10,000 prize - this evening during a ceremony at the Soho Hotel in ...

The international film community is in uproar after Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, directors of the 2024 Berlinale feature 'My Favourite Cake,' were summoned to court in their native Iran. By ...

Azmeri Haque Badhon plays a professor of medicine who teeters between fierce feminism and personal obsession in Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s second feature, the first Bangladeshi film in Cannes’ official ...