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The political tone at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival

By Jordan Mattos, May 14, 2011

The recent Tribeca Film Festival screened some interesting works from Serbia, Hungary, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Korea, France and Romania in particular.

Toronto International Film Festival 2010—Part 5

What does it mean to take reality seriously?

By David Walsh, October 14, 2010

Films from Iran, China and Romania, including a conversation with Iranian filmmaker Rafi Pitts, director of The Hunter.

Jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on hunger strike

By Richard Phillips, May 24, 2010

Acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been jailed for more than two months in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.

No One Knows About Persian Cats: The struggle of young Iranian musicians

By Hiram Lee, May 8, 2010

Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi's latest film No One Knows About Persian Cats tells the story of underground musicians in Tehran who struggle to make their music, which has been outlawed in the country.

David Walsh looks at Taste of Cherry, a new film from Iran

Despair, hope, life

By David Walsh, April 11, 1998

Film review: Taste of Cherry, written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami