Cannes red carpet: a secular altar for cinema, spectacle, and activism, where politics and art collide in a vivid tableau.

Slovenian Martial Industrialists embark on what may be their most intrepid gambit yet – will they succeed? On the evidence of ...

The 2022 uprising, sparked by the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini, reignited women’s defiance ... Iranians create underground art, subversive poetry, and encrypted communication. Families teach banned ...

Cannes Film Festival expands beyond movies. It explores immersive storytelling. Technology like AI and VR creates new ...

From Maia Ruth Lee’s sculptural explorations of migration to Nazanin Noori’s interrogation of Iran’s recent political history ...

Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hadn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than ...

In September that year, the Jin Jiyan Azadi protests began after the death of a Kurdish woman, Zhina Mahsa Amini, in the custody of the morality police after she was detained for reportedly not ...

the aftermath of the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Iran in 2023, Turkey's geopolitical strategy vis-à-vis Russia and the West, the plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey, and the war ...