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 ...
DOX, Copenhagen’s documentary film festival, on Friday. The award, known as the Dox:Award, comes with a cash prize of €10,000 ($11,555). In ...
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 ...
Held alongside the UN Human Rights Council session, the festival brings together films and forums under the theme "Resisting Authoritarianism." ...
On the assumption that Americans should understand who we’re bombing, here are five excellent Iranian films, all streaming ...
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 “Cream City Cinema” collection at the Milwaukee Film Festival showcases features, documentaries, short films and more by local filmmakers.
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 ...