IFP - A record-breaking number of Iranian female filmmakers are set to take part in different sections of an international film festival due to be held within the next two weeks. A Farsi report by the Khabar Online News Agency says more than 180 female filmmakers have already applied for taking part in Feature, Lengthy Feature, Mid-length ...

The Open City Docs Fest London is celebrating Cinemadoosti (the Persian word for cinephilia) with a collection of Iranian documentaries that take a look at contemporary Iran, mainly through the eyes of female filmmakers. In My Stolen Revolution, the director Nahid Persson Sarvestani uses archival footage to look back on her involvement in the ...

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TEHRAN --Irans Visual Media Institute plans to release a package of top movies by three Iranian female filmmakers in the near future. The package will contain several movies by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Tahmineh Milani and Puran Derakhshandeh, Managing Director of the institute Hossein Mosafer-Astaneh told the Persian service of MNA on Saturday. We ...