Yellow Letters and Emin Alper’s Salvation both won headline honours at the Berlin film festival and show dissenting cinema is thriving in the face of Erdoğan’s repression ...

Kurdish filmmaker Rojhilat Aksoy is facing trial in Turkey on charges of "publicly insulting the Turkish nation and state institutions" after organizing a screening of the animated documentary film ...

For decades, Persian-language movies have showcased Iranian culture and people. Today, the country’s great directors are ...

Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah al-Khatib ruffled the feathers of the German elite with his passionate defence of the Palestinian cause ...

Interview with Kurdish filmmaker Sevînaz Evdikê about the situation of women in Rojava and the Islamist regime in Damascus. Sevînaz Evdikê (born 1992 in Serêkaniyê, Rojava) studied film in Northern ...

No Other Land became the first film representing Palestine to win an Academy Award when it took the Oscar for Best ...

The first Skyfire Environmental Film Fest will feature docs 'Kuleana,' narrated by Woody Harrelson, and 'Fork in the Road,' ...

What started as a way to connect filmmakers in Iowa has blossomed into an annual showcase for artists that plays an important ...

The festival brings films and filmmakers from around the world for a four-day celebration. This year, organizers are trying out some new dates and spoke about what else attendees can expect, including ...

Two milestone anniversaries, one uncertain moment. How the city that introduced Asian cinema to the world is reckoning with the forces reshaping it.

The 7th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival is coming back to the Panida Theater, featuring short films that explore public ...

Festival founder Halfdan Hussey is celebrating more than three decades of Cinequest with a new home for the festival in ...