A family drama and a political parable, Rasoulof’s new film concerns a recently promoted “investigative judge” named Iman (Missagh Zareh) — really a rubber-stamper there to bureaucracy-wash the regime ...

Forced to flee Iran, dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof says it is bittersweet that his latest movie will contend at the Oscars -- under the banner of another country.

Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what it described as a "heinous antisemitic terror ...

GLENDALE — The film “Vigen, Berlin and the Cold War” was screened on Sunday, November 3, at Laemmle Theatre here, followed by a question-and-answer session with its director and coproducer, [...] ...

Tensions between Israel and Iran have led to multiple attacks on each other over recent months. In the latest incident, ...

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On Oct. 1, as Iran was firing ... leaders that are waging war. “These girls are gathered around literature, around art, around culture,” Farahani said at the film’s Rome press conference.