London-based Saudi philanthropist and film producer Hani Farsi is venturing into TV production with two projects for high-end series, one on the advent of jet-set society and the other on Winston ...

Lord Puttnam, a legendary figure in the British film industry, is making a return to producing after a nearly two-decade absence to produce Greenpeace activist drama Arctic 30. He is teaming with ...

The Israel Film Festival kicks off its 29th season on Oct. 28 with one of the most unusual movies to emerge from the Jewish state, with characters who speak mainly in Farsi and represent a distinct ...

The documentary No Other Land, a collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, won an Oscar in March for its ...

Babak Anvari's debut feature, which is being released across the U.S. on Friday and later on Netflix, has been submitted as the U.K.'s entry in the foreign-language Oscar category. By Alex Ritman U.K.

The Lake Shore Arabic and Farsi Film Festival runs Friday through Sunday, April 2 through 4, at Loyola Univ. Sullivan Center, 6339 N. Sheridan. All films will be shown by video projection, and ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — “Baba Joon,” a Farsi-language movie made by an Iranian-Israeli director and a group of Iranian-born actors, will be Israel’s entry in this year’s Academy Awards. The film will be ...

“Universal Language” takes place in an imaginary, barely conceivable Canada that has taken in so many Iranian immigrants that road signs and graffiti are in Farsi, even in remote Winnipeg. At Tim ...

Lord Puttnam, a legendary figure in the British film industry, is making a return to producing after a nearly two-decade absence to produce Greenpeace activist drama Arctic 30. He is teaming with ...