"The Stoning of Soraya M." is not for casual viewing. Based on a true story, this powerful film recounts the murder of a wrongly accused woman in a small Iranian village in 1986. Needless the say, the ...

CAT&Docs has picked up international sales rights for Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei's documentary 'A Fox Under a Pink ...

"The Stoning of Soraya M." (opening July 17 at Landmark's La Jolla Village Theaters) is not great filmmaking but it's a great example of how films can help draw attention to issues in a forceful and ...

With the possible exception of university administrations, there is no institution as bereft of courage as Hollywood. In Hollywood courage is defined as savaging oil, power and tobacco executives on ...

A few years ago, I read an article in the New Yorker that described the barbarism of certain aspects of Shari’a law. The author detailed how, in many Middle Eastern countries, Muslim men use the ...

“I am captivated by the unexpected encounters, discovering cultures through the eyes of those who live it and the unpredictability of the unscripted story that emerges while filming.” – Soraya Umewaka ...

CANNES, FRANCE — As a producer of “The Passion of the Christ,” Stephen McEveety knows how difficult (and also satisfying) it can be to make a controversial, sometimes brutal movie about religion and ...

These first words, which she wants no villager to understand, are the only English ones; the rest of the dialogue is in Farsi. Jim Caviezel, who plays the writer, is the only non-Iranian in the cast.

As The Stoning of Soraya M. makes clear, being on the right side of an issue doesn't ensure a winning argument. The film is based on a horrible, true story. In 1986, an Iranian husband rid himself of ...

Plays for much of its running time like a dime-store version of Arthur Miller, only to conclude in a wrenching, extraordinarily brutal sequence that is as upsetting as it is moving. Zahra (Aghdashloo) ...