Filmmaker Panahi cheered on return to Iran after Cannes triumph
Paris, France - Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was given a hero's welcome by supporters on his return to Tehran on Monday after winning the top prize at the Cannes film festival, footage posted on social media showed. After being banned from leaving Iran for years, forced to make films underground...
Iraq’s first ever director in Cannes wins best feature debut
Hasan Hadi won the top prize for his childhood adventure under economic sanctions in "The President's Cake".Cannes film festival says to ‘honour’ slain Gaza photojournalist
Paris, France - The Cannes film festival said Wednesday that the screening of a documentary about Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna at the event next month would honour her work after the "horror" of her death in an Israeli air strike last week. "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk"...Huge investments help Saudi cinema soft power grow
Saudi largesse for the arts has boomed under the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with billions pouring into previously taboo areas such as music, fashion and sports.Saudi Arabia to host Global Summit of Real Estate leaders
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia will host the 42nd edition of the Global Real Estate Summit next December in Riyadh. According to Saudi News Agency (SPA), the summit is considered the industry's largest annual gathering, which includes real estate pioneers and CEOs of critical real estate companies from all...Iran film-maker Panahi must serve six-year sentence: judiciary
Award-winning dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, arrested last week in Tehran, must serve a six-year sentence previously handed to him in 2010, the judicial authority announced Tuesday.Top film bodies part of Saudi contingent at Cannes Festival
Saudi Arabia will participate in the 75th Cannes International Film Festival, which will be held during the period from 17 to 28 May, with a national pavilion supervised by the Film Commission. The Ministry of Investment, the Red Sea Film Festival, the Al-Ula Film, the King Abdulaziz Center for World...David Cronenberg puts kidney stone pic on sale
The director has put up a picture of his newly removed kidney stones for sale for $30,000 as an NFT.Barred Iran director’s son follows his footsteps to Cannes
You might think the family business did not seem so inviting to young Iranian filmmaker Panah Panahi, given that his acclaimed father has faced years of persecution at the hands of the authorities.










