MIFF’s Bright Horizons Award Winner is Hybrid Cinema – a Canadian film in love with Persian cinema, which offers a whole new approach to filmmaking diaspora. We need to use
The script is good and the acting consistently engaging … a highly watchable film well worth catching in a cinema.
... not for all tastes but those who do connect with it will likely want to revisit again and again to spend time with its two magical protagonists.
Despite its simple and potentially depressing premise, everything comes together perfectly in its feel-good third act.
Writer/Director Noora Niasari and actor Osamah Sami on the Persian influences of festival favourite Shayda.
Selected for Sundance, where it picked up the World Cinema Audience Award [Drama], Iranian-Australian writer/director Noora Niasari's film stars Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider), Leah Purcell, Osamah Sami,
We take a look at the five 2023 Oscar nominated short films, which are receiving a limited cinema release ahead of the March 12 ceremony.
When Iranian/Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi premiered his serial killer thriller Holy Spider at Cannes this year, he had no idea how his film would take on a whole new meaning
… tender filmmaking which places the personal as the political in a manner that is never heavy-handed.
… a gripping morality tale …