The Open City Docs Fest London is celebrating Cinemadoosti (the Persian word for cinephilia) with a collection of Iranian documentaries that take a look at contemporary Iran, mainly through the eyes of female filmmakers. In My Stolen Revolution, the director Nahid Persson Sarvestani uses archival footage to look back on her involvement in the ...

Two Iranian documentaries have been selected to be screened at the 2014 Open City Docs Festival in the UK's capital capital city of London. Trucker and the Fox directed by Arash Lahouti and Iranian Ninja by Marjan Riahi are slated to be showcased in a particular program on Iran titled Friendship Cinema at the festival. Lahoutis screen representation ...