A report on the 14th annual Docaviv, the Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
Middle Eastern Media
Despite working within institutions with rigid ideological missions, Iranian documentary filmmakers have long found ways to produce work according to
In this behind-the-scenes peek, journalist-turned-filmmaker Janay Boulos details how the idea for an urgent, political project about Lebanon became
The Smoke Sauna Sisterhood and Four Daughters editor on building a cozy space for creativity and collaboration
The 79th edition of the French festival offered some nonfiction gems for those willing to look beyond its headline titles
A new program on Cinema-ye Azad, an underground filmmaking movement that emerged in Iran in 1969, foregrounds its relationship to documentary practice
Watch an exclusive clip from Dawood Hilmandi’s personal doc about his vexed relationship with his father, Paikar , screening at Hot Docs
Montreal-based Iranian filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi traces a century of oil’s colonial violence and contested solidarities across three archive-based essay
The creative disassembly of the Golestan Film Workshop, Iran’s first independent film studio
Watch the trailer for Far From Maine, Roy Cohen’s deeply personal feature documentary which will world-premiere at Rotterdam