‘Chess Of The Wind’ Exclusive Trailer: Long Lost Iranian Classic Gets A 4K Restoration & Theatrical Release This Month

e got off to a slow startthis year, but it has now heated up with the submissions of crowd-pleasing films from Norway and Denmark, movies from past winners from Italy and Iran and a French submission that could shake up the race even if it horrifies as many voters as it thrills.The latest big-name submission came on Tuesday, when the Italian selection committee announced the choice of “The Hand of God,” an autobiographical fantasia from director Paolo Sorrentino.

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has gone on hunger strike for the second time in two years due to the Government's "inaction and failure" in its handling of her case.

coronavirus, which has killed more people in Iran than any other country in the Middle East, forced the museum to close its doors to Warhol fans for a few weeks in August.“I love this painting,” gushed 46-year-old Fatemeh Rezaee, taking in the colored ink of Marilyn Monroe’s face, which Warhol produced in 1962 soon after the actress killed herself. “By looking at it, I visualized Marilyn Monroe’s life story in my head.

The Bachelorette Australia. WATCH: Darvid gets the first date with Brooke on The BacheloretteIn the very first episode of Brooke Blurton's new season of The Bachelorette, the dashing 'Persian Prince' Darvid received the white rose.

Iran has chosen Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero as its entry for this year’s International Oscar category.

Marvel Studios announced by Disney on Monday, Paramount has moved up the Sandra Bullock adventure comedy “The Lost City” from April 15, 2022 to March 25. The move puts the film into a late March release slot that had been held by Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which has moved to May 6.

Stand-up comedy has never been the easiest of career choices, especially when you are not only female, but British Iranian. But from the age of 10, when she discovered she could make grown-ups cry with laughter, Shappi Khorsandi never doubted she was funny.

Arian Moayed may be on “Succession,” one of the hottest shows on television — but that doesn’t really impress his mom.The Iranian-born actor, 41, who came to the US following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, says that his mother is most proud of her other son who is every immigrant parents’ dream: a doctor.“Even being in a show like ‘Succession’ my mom still leads with, ‘He’s a doctor,'” Moayed said leading into Sunday night’s season premiere on HBO.Moayed plays Stewie Hosseini, a private equity

EXCLUSIVE: Hyperion has inked comedian, actor, and filmmaker Aristotle Athari, who has just joined Saturday Night Live this season as a featured player, for representation.

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his 115th international goal – extending his incredibly impressive goalscoring record.

EXCLUSIVE: Cranked Up Films has acquired North American rights to This Game’s Called Murder, an indie thriller from writer-director Adam Sherman (Wristcutters: A Love Story), with plans to release it in theaters and on demand December 3rd.

Christopher Vourlias Greece’s Argonauts Productions has boarded “Forough: A Lonely Woman,” a biopic about iconoclastic Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad by BAFTA-nominated director Tina Gharavi (“I Am Nasrine”), ahead of its presentation in the co-production forum of Rome’s MIA market.The film follows the short and controversial life of Farrokhzad, a feminist icon who in the 1950s and ‘60s found a way to tell her story in an Iranian society not yet ready for the uncomfortable truths of female

Jennifer Lopez holds hands with boyfriend Ben Affleck after checking out of their hotel in New York City on Sunday (October 10).

Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo on Saturday made his 181st appearance for Portugal, bettering the European record previously held by Spain's Sergio Ramos.

When writer-director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) set out to tell the story behind his new film A Hero, he had the idea of looking at the steep up-and-down trajectory of a man’s life caused by one supposedly small action. It received a five-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere and won the Grand Prize.

We are exactly three weeks away from the debut of Edgar Wright’s new psychological thriller, “Last Night in Soho.” And since this is Wright we’re talking about—someone who loves to share lists—it’s no surprise the filmmaker has put together a playlist of songs that should get you in the right mindset for viewing his new film.