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  • Still from the film "My Favourite Cake" with Lily Farhadpour, Esmail Mehrabi
    Cinema in Iran

    Unveiled women conquer the silver screen

    More and more Iranian films are breaking taboos – the results are being met with amazement both in and outside Iran. "My Favourite Cake", which premiered at the Berlinale in February, is just the latest example

  • Iranian cinema: "A Tale from Shemroon"

    King of the night

    Many reports on Iran focus on Tehran's middle classes, giving a rather one-sided impression of the country. New film release "A Tale from Shemroon" is also set in this milieu. So does it succeed in presenting a more multi-faceted picture? Lisa Neal watched the film for Qantara.de

  • Iran protests

    Iranian women filmmakers fight oppression

    Well-educated and politically aware, they are the epitome of the empowered woman. Instead, Iranian women filmmakers have been fighting violence and oppression for decades. By Julia Hitz

  • Short movies nominated for an Oscar often don't get wide public attention. But when one is about an Iranian girl seeking freedom from male domination by taking off her veil, interest is sure to spike.
    Oscar-bound short

    Lifting the veil on Iranian women rejecting male domination

    Short movies nominated for an Oscar often don't get wide public attention. But when one is about an Iranian girl seeking freedom from male domination by taking off her veil, interest is sure to spike

  • World-famous Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has been incarcerated for several months, even though Iran's Supreme Court overturned the verdict against him. Now, he has gone on hunger strike in protest.
    Iran protests

    Iranian film director Jafar Panahi released following hunger strike

    World-famous Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has been released from Tehran's notorious Evin prison after a hunger strike. By Stuart Braun

  • "Maybe this will be my last post," wrote Iranian actor Hengameh Ghaziani on Instagram on 19 November. "From this moment on, whatever happens to me, know that I am, as I have always been, with the Iranian people until my last breath."
    Iran protests 2022

    Female film stars show solidarity

    In Iran, two famous actresses, Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, were arrested recently. These days anyone who shows solidarity with the protesters is a target to be silenced. By Kevin Tschierse

  • The shoestring budget film "Velayatnameh", set decades in the future, features all manner of things that include a robot, quantum leaps and the requisite cat video,
    "Velayatnameh" and the Islamic Revolution

    Low-budget sci-fi film shatters Iran’s sacred red lines

    A sci-fi film lampooning the Islamic Republic and all that its regime holds sacred premiered quietly at a nondescript venue in Los Angeles in July. The title, “Velayatnameh”, is a spoof on Ferdowsi's “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”

  • More than 800 Iranian filmmakers have signed a declaration against sexual harassment, coercion and violence in their industry. The public's response to their willingness to name and shame has been overwhelming.
    Sexual violence

    #MeToo revelations rock Iranian film industry

    More than 800 Iranian filmmakers have signed a declaration against sexual harassment, coercion and violence in their industry. The public's response to their willingness to name and shame has been overwhelming. By Nasrin Bassiri

  • Prostitution in the Shah's Iran

    Shahr-e No – "the neighbourhood of the sorrowful"

    Drawing on the history of Tehran's Shahr-e No red light district, Nasrin Bassiri describes how prostitution functioned in Iran before the Islamic Revolution. The neighbourhood would end up being destroyed in August 1980, six months after Khomeini came to power

  • Alireza Abiz' "Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran"

    Iranian literature – the censor’s mindset

    The Islamic Republic has a strict and often arbitrary system of censoring artistic and journalistic works. An in-depth investigation by writer Alireza Abiz uncovers the details and their impact on the book trade. By Gerrit Wustmann

  • Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani speaks during a news conference following the Fields Medal award ceremony at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, 13 August 2014.
    The Persian poetry of mathematics

    From Omar Khayyam to Mirzakhani – Iran’s beautiful minds

    Presenting a more nuanced vision of their common homeland, Iran, to Western imaginations, kindred spirits Omar Khayyam and Maryam Mirzakhani stand out against the twenty-first century backdrop of anti-Iranian sentiment and Islamophobia. By Hamid Dabashi

  • Shiraz was Iran's Book Capital of 2020. The poet Hafez was born here in 1315.
    Caught between tradition and modernity

    Will ancient poet Hafez win the "soft war" in Iran?

    Iran is far more modern than many people realise: our view is clouded by media distortion and the overriding political narrative. The nation’s historic and cultural riches are often overlooked. A declaration of love for Iran by Marian Brehmer

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