The year’s best nonfiction filmmaking on the big screen and TV shows were awarded at the New York Academy of Medicine in East ...

Iranian authorities have unleashed a deadly crackdown on protesters across the country since December 28, 2025, marked by ...

The Cinema for Peace Foundation has unveiled the nominees for its annual Cinema Dove and Nobel awards celebrating films and ...

The late Bahram Beyzai, former Bita Daryabari Visiting Professor of Iranian Studies, left a lasting cultural legacy as an writer, director and playwright.

By my Letterboxd count I saw 147 new movies in 2025 (couldn’t quite make it to 150, dammit) and I wholeheartedly recommend 30 ...

The 24th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) is set to begin on January 10, opening with Chinese director Chen Xiang's The Journey to No End. Despite uncertainty over large-scale cultural events ...

A new film and cocktail series is set to run this winter inside the Breezeway at Puritan Coffee & Beer on Dickson Street.

One of the most urgent thrillers of 2025, Jafar Panahi's Oscar contender It Was Just an Accident, is gaining steam on ...

The Cinematheque is a Cleveland cultural treasure. If you’ve never been there, peruse its website (cinematheque.cia.edu) and ...

The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last year, and it will make many best-of lists (as it should) but it is atypical Panahi ...

Jan 02, 2026 Web Exclusive By Kaveh Jalinous. I always start these lists by proclaiming how writing the previous year’s list ...