In Iran, politicians led by President Massud Peseschkian have called for talks with the USA.

Alireza Khatami’s “The Things You Kill” is the most well calibrated and cerebral film of the Sundance film festival this year ...

Nojang Khatami is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Justitita Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Beginning in fall 2023, he will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at ...

A Turkish literary professor unravels when his mother dies in mysterious circumstances in Iranian director Alireza Khatami’s noirish nightmare.

Reformist candidates supporting President Khatami won a significant victory in February's parliamentary elections, hailed as the fairest in Iran's history, but hopes that this would lead quickly ...

“I herewith proclaim to those (Western leaders) who still do not want to see the realities that the political axis of the new Middle East will soon be Islamic rulership and a democracy based on ...

One is Terrestrial Verses co-director Alireza Khatami’s Turkey-set thriller The Things You Kill, while the other is a documentary about a motorbike-riding village councilwoman in rural Iran.

Premiering out Sundance’s world dramatic competition ahead of subsequent play in Rotterdam, “The Things You Kill” marks Iranian auteur Alireza Khatami’s most personal and outré work to date.