IFFR keeps "championing filmmakers forging new paths in cinema," such as a creative tortured for his participation in a ...

Questioned by an interviewer, detainees are shown confessing to a variety of alleged offences ranging from committing ...

As thousands of Iranian families have this month buried loved ones killed in the deadliest street protests in their country’s ...

In modern-day Tehran, two longtime pals and roommates are threatened when their underground creative circle attracts the ...

The musical legend, who was punished for ‘moral decay’ and went into exile, now voluntarily withholds her voice in solidarity.

There are some areas where Canada has real leverage. It has rare-earth minerals that the U.S. covets. Cars produced in ...

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The last time folk music truly mattered, the world was on edge. In the 1960s, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York armed ...

With Keir Starmer away in China, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was pushed on the financial pressures facing Britain’s pubs by the Conservative shadow business secretary. After DPMQs, Home Office ...

The humour that creeps in gradually is the kind commonly found in thrillers or even superhero movies. While the stakes may be life and death, Vahid and his fellow would-be avengers are regular people ...