Shortly before he was to be flogged and imprisoned for eight years, Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran.

A pro-reform newspaper says Iran has relased an award-winning filmmaker more than six months after arresting him for criticizing the government.

Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been released on bail, two days after going on hunger strike to protest his six-year sentence.

An Iranian director who was arrested last summer, weeks before his latest film was released to widespread acclaim, has gone on hunger strike.

After being arrested for creating antigovernment propaganda in 2010, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi was banned from making films for 20 years.

The New York Film Critics Circle named “Tár” as its best picture of the year.

For director and actor Olivia Wilde, the dream of the Venice International Film Festival was woven into the fabric of her new film, “Don’t Worry Darling.”.

The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Gray’s Queens coming-of-age drama “Armageddon Time” and Laura Poitras’ documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” about artist Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family.

Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” the Marilyn Monroe drama “Blonde,” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” with Timothée Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this fall.

Iran’s judiciary has ordered one of the country’s leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced, as the government seeks to silence criticism amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure.

Iranian authorities have arrested an internationally renowned filmmaker, the third Iranian director to be locked up in less than a week as the government escalates a crackdown on the country’s celebrated cinema industry.