The Voice of Hind Rajab made an immediate impact when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2025, receiving a 23-minute standing ovation and seven awards. More were to follow as it played at ...

Call it the anti-coming-of-age story.

Heartwarming and deeply family-focused, Hello Betty is a beautiful film that revisits the early emergence of the Betty Bossi persona, the famous fictional figure... A Kurdish village in Eastern Turkey ...

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

From ornate ceilings and midnight screenings to a theater with actual stories baked into the walls, Los Angeles is home to ...

Kurdistan leadership rejects claims of aiding anti-Iran operations while Iraq’s First Lady warns against using Kurdish communities in regional power struggles amid the escalating Middle East conflict.

Several Iranian filmmakers will be present at this year’s Oscars, and some are urging celebrities to “speak out about what is ...

On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Iran after weeks of threats from President Trump. In a Truth Soc.

Given the incendiary news from this year’s edition, it may surprise you to learn that the Berlinale is among the more logistically easygoing of the major international film festivals. Part of this is ...

Can film festivals also be political spaces? That was the absurd question that ran through this year’s Berlin Film Festival. It all began with jury president Wim Wenders saying during the fest’s ...

Khatib, who won Best Feature Debut for his film 'Chronicles From the Siege', criticized the German government, saying it was complicit in Israel’s conduct in the war against Hamas.

Two of the buzziest — and most star-studded — movies world premiering in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, “Rosebush Pruning” and “At the Sea,” are from two decidedly non-Hollywood ...