For decades, Persian-language movies have showcased Iranian culture and people. Today, the country’s great directors are ...

On the assumption that Americans should understand who we’re bombing, here are five excellent Iranian films, all streaming ...

Iranian filmmakers turned censorship into one of cinema’s most vital movements. War threatens to destroy what decades of ...

No Other Land became the first film representing Palestine to win an Academy Award when it took the Oscar for Best ...

Kurdish filmmaker Rojhilat Aksoy is facing trial in Turkey on charges of "publicly insulting the Turkish nation and state ...

The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) traces how oil companies used film to shape ...

Noir City Hollywood hosts Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode preview a festival at the American Cinematheque that will showcase ...

For decades, the foreign film was known to come with a catch. It would get all the acclaim and praise from critics, but mainstream audiences would rarely pay it any attention. However, things changed ...

A new book by UC Santa Barbara’s Mona Damluji examines an unexpected intersection of culture and industry: the relationship ...

COVID, post-strikes production slowdown weren’t enough, Hollywood is now facing another significant threat: higher fuel costs ...

A new AI video model developed by Chinese tech giant ByteDance is drawing attention in Hollywood after generating cinematic scenes from simple prompts. Clips created with the system, called Seedance 2 ...