The documentary “Singing Wings” by Iranian director Hemen Khaledi won an award at the 30th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), held from September 17 to 26 in South Korea.

Iranian protest musicians became powerful voices of the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement, inspiring crowds and facing severe repression. Their anthems united protesters, showing why authorities now see music as a major threat.

In June, Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, defense systems and top military officials. Iran’s retaliation included ballistic missiles that struck major cities in Israel, killing 31 people. Among the more than 1,

Iran has carried out the highest number of executions in three decades as part of a “mass killing campaign”, a new report has found. More than 1,000 people were executed between January and September this year, according to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IRN). An estimated 64 hangings were carried out last week alone.

With the rise of avant-garde filmmakers in the 1960s, Iran's New Wave emerged, marked by the works of pioneers like Ebrahim Golestan, Farrokh Ghaffari, Hajir Darioush, and Forough Farrokhzad. Later, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the cinematic ...

Three years after Mahsa Amini’s death, Iran’s political system is economically bankrupt and increasingly alienated from its people.

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In late June, amid Israel and Iran’s twelve-day exchange of air strikes and rockets, Iranian authorities ...