Picking non-actors for her critically acclaimed film 'Second Chance' was a deliberate choice, said Mahajan, who was inspired ...

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In a year full of richly textured stories about female trauma and painful personal growth, the Cannes jury, led by Juliette Binoche, took the noble route and gave the Palme d'Or to the most political ...

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Iran has summoned France's representative in protest after the French foreign minister praised a prize-winning Iranian film as "a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime's oppression."Foreign ...

Iran's Palme d'Or-winning director Jafar Panahi was cheered as he arrived home after his Cannes win. However, the national ...

In the 1990s, the Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Iranian Abbas Kiarostami ... I’ve personally sat through 20 or so of his movies in Paris since September, presenting a few of ...

From a gentle homage to Abbas Kiarostami to the most violent adaptation of "Hamlet" ever staged, here are the 10 best movies that have been released in America so far this year. 2025 was — and ...

Even before the movie begins, onscreen text proclaims ... including some early children’s films from the celebrated director Abbas Kiarostami. Rankin even uses a logo for his fictitious ...

When my first film came out, someone wrote, “It’s like Kiarostami took ecstasy ... oh, I know this movie, oh this looks like Faradi, this reminds me of so and so. But halfway through ...