A video of a naked woman protesting in Iran has gone viral. The motivation behind her actions is unclear, but reports suggest ...

Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi had been sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison for their coverage of the death of Mahsa ...

Women players beat the odds to cut a path for ice hockey in Iran Iran may seem an unlikely setting for women's ice hockey, but a fledgling league has seen its young players confront the country's ...

Filming started two weeks before the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' protest movement in Iran in 2022 sparked by the arrest of a ...

And at that point, I thought it would be very interesting to make a film about a family like his, with this profound rift at ...

Making and promoting The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a remarkable act of bravery from director Mohammad Rasoulof, his cast and crew.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s film is powerful indictment of Iranian Oppression even though the solution given seems rather naive ...

Iran’s legislature passed a controversial strict new “chastity and hijab" bill in December that proposed harsher punishments for women and girls exposing their hair, arms and legs. The bill says that ...

As a challenge to World Hijab Day on 1 February, No Hijab Day aims to confront the dominant narrative that packages the hijab as a symbol of women’s ‘empowerment’ and ‘choice’ and any opposition to it ...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful film on Iran during the Women, Life, Freedom protests deserves high praise, but the role of ...